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HISTORICALL
COLLECTIONS
OF
ECCLESIASTICK
AFFAIRS
IN
SCOTLAND
And
Politick
related
to
them
,
Including
the
Murder
of
the
Cardinal
of
St.
Andrews
,
And
the
Beheading
of
their
Queen
Mary
in
England
.
By
Ri.
Watson
.
Sanguis
sanguinem
tetigit
.
Hosea
Chap.
4.
ver.
2
By
swearing
,
and
lying
,
and
killing
,
and
stealing
,
and
commiting
adultery
they
break
out
,
And
bloud
toucheth
bloud
.
London
,
Printed
by
G.
D.
for
Iohn
Garfield
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
Shop
at
the
sign
of
the
Rolling-Presse
for
Pictures
,
near
the
Royal
Exchange
in
Corn-hill
,
over
against
Popes-head-alley
.
1657.
TO
The
Right
Reverend
FATHER
in
GOD
,
And
Religious
Assertour
of
Christs
Catholick
Church
,
JOHN
LORD
Bishop
of
ROCHESTER
.
My
Lord
.
THE
certain
hazard
of
all
one
hath
,
or
is
,
in
these
uncertain
times
,
annexed
to
the
nicessity
of
a
strict
account
,
to
be
rendred
in
the
porch
or
passage
unto
eternity
,
of
the
managing
all
affairs
and
offices
,
relating
either
to
obligation
,
or
restitution
in
this
world
;
puts
me
upon
a
serious
review
of
mine
own
concernment
,
wherein
,
among
many
instances
of
chief
regard
,
I
find
one
of
my
great
engagements
unto
your
Lordship
with
the
impresse
or
character
of
Holy
Orders
,
into
which
I
receiv'd
my
entrance
by
the
imposition
of
your
sacred
hands
,
unto
whom
I
take
my self
,
in
some
degree
of
duty
to
stand
responsable
for
what
I
act
by
that
Commission
,
or
write
with
any
reflexion
upon
the
Doctrine
or
Discipline
of
our
Church
.
The
Historical
Observations
,
I
here
humbly
present
your
Lordship
with
,
are
inseparable
from
that
title
in
respect
of
both
.
the
Sect
of
Schismaticks
I
describe
,
having
,
according
to
the
Tradition
I
am
guided
by
,
in
a
phrenetick
fury
from
the
beginning
,
thrown
the
price
of
their
estates
at
their
false
Apostles
fe●t
,
and
they
with
them
cast
souls
and
bodies
into
the
fire
of
a
raging
persecution
,
by
impious
cruelties
when
predominant
by
opprob●ious
calumnies
when
unarmed
,
and
by
civil
wars
,
when
their
plough
shares
and
pruning
hooks
could
at
any
time
be
fashioned
into
swords
or
axes
,
for
the
cutting
down
not
onely
superfluous
innovations
in
the
habit
,
but
the
very
body
and
existence
of
that
Apostolick
rule
and
worship
to
which
pattern
we
pretend
.
I
pursue
them
but
to
the
period
of
their
first
domestick
insolencies
,
drencht
in
the
bloud
of
that
famous
Queen
.
Whom
their
best
Poet
,
but
one
of
Her
Majesties
worst
subjects
,
once
thought
worth
this
Distich
;
Quae
sortem
antevenis
meritis
,
virtutibus
annos
,
Sexum
animis
,
morum
nobilitate
genus
.
What
latter
attempts
they
made
,
when
they
marched
over
their
borders
to
reform
according
to
the
mysterious
model
of
their
new
Cove
▪
nant
,
that
whereunto
their
old
enormous
practices
ought
rather
to
have
been
conformed
,
is
declar'd
and
historiz'd
by
that
Royal
Pen
▪
which
hath
Registred
to
their
eternal
infamy
their
cutting
in
sunder
the
common
Tie●
of
nature
,
soveraignty
,
and
bounty
;
their
forgetting
speciall
fresh
obligations
wherewith
their
active
spirits
had
been
gratified
,
not
without
some
seeming
diminution
to
,
or
depr●ssion
of
the
Doners
interest
and
honour
;
their
inroad
with
an
intent
to
confirm
the
Presbyterian
copy
they
had
set
,
by
making
our
Church
to
write
after
them
,
though
it
were
in
bloudy
characters
.
How
infatuated
they
were
in
those
counsels
,
how
by
providence
defeated
in
their
most
desperate
wicked
e●ds
,
the
unpittied
spectacle
of
their
downfal
demonstrates
to
all
the
world
.
Yet
my
Lord
,
this
is
not
to
raise
a
Trophee
out
of
their
miseries
,
or
to
trample
on
their
dejected
persons
.
If
,
by
pourtrai●ing
the
horrid
actio●s
of
their
Ancestours
,
I
can
excite
their
guilty
consciences
to
compare
the
copy
with
the
original
,
and
repent
effectu●lly
for
the
transcend●ncie
of
their
own
rebellions
,
I
shall
have
great
complacency
in
the
assurance
that
I
have
outrun
,
or
outwrit
my
hopes
.
Howsoever
in
what
proportion
I
may
expect
credit
to
be
given
unto
my
care
,
which
was
not
little
,
in
the
Collection
,
and
what
resignation
by
the
impartial
Reader
unto
the
naked
truth
of
the
contents
.
I
shall
not
doubt
but
hereby
I
may
,
in
the
same
,
confirm
all
pious
and
humble
hearts
in
the
preferring
the
ancient
and
univ●rsal
successive
government
of
the
Christian
Church
before
the
new
Genevatizing
bloudy
discipline
of
some
heady
Scots
;
and
perswade
all
moderate
and
quiet
minded
men
to
acknowledge
one
supremacy
over
both
estates
,
by
trusting
the
same
hand
with
Christs
Scepter
here
on
earth
,
which
himself
doth
with
it
and
the
civill
sword
.
But
this
endeavour
may
seem
impertinent
,
if
not
impudent
,
in
the
face
or
memory
of
that
most
Reverend
heroick
Prelate
,
whose
greater
eminency
in
authority
,
and
interest
in
the
same
Country
hath
with
much
more
advantage
,
particularly
and
amply
satisfied
the
world
by
a
grearer
Volume
,
for
the
suppressing
which
so
many
subtilties
and
violences
had
been
used
,
beside
the
power
of
a
forraign
Magistrate
,
for
a
surprisal
of
the
Secretarie
in
his
preparing
it
to
the
Presse
that
nothing
could
be
a
surer
evidence
,
than
such
self-confessing
guiltinesse
,
against
that
party
,
nor
ought
else
,
after
the
Grace
and
Reverence
of
the
renowned
Authour
,
put
a
greater
estimate
and
opinion
upon
the
Book
,
at
least
if
publisht
as
he
writ
it
.
May
it
please
your
Lordship
therefore
to
believe
upon
my
word
(
who
am
invested
with
the
second
order
to
make
it
valid
)
that
this
Treatise
was
designed
long
since
in
a
preparatorie
antecedence
unto
the
other
,
and
to
that
purpose
,
with
more
ingenious
confid●nce
than
worldly
prudence
,
trusted
in
the
same
hand
which
was
to
print
and
reap
the
profit
of
His
Grace's
work
,
from
which
,
after
the
dilatory
pretences
of
some
judgement
to
be
made
by
a
view
to
be
taken
of
it
,
or
rather
after
the
Printers
turn
was
served
in
dispersing
the
greater
Copies
,
it
was
returned
with
this
sentence
,
delivered
by
a
person
(
whose
name
I
had
not
)
of
much
learning
,
honour
,
and
integrity
,
upon
perusal
of
it
,
That
there
was
too
much
gall
in
the
ink
wherewith
it
was
wrote
,
and
supposed
that
an
enemy
was
the
Collector
,
for
that
through
the
sides
of
those
the
design
is
against
,
our
own
Mother
is
wounded
.
My
Lord
,
if
the
name
of
that
severe
person
,
with
a
particular
of
his
exceptions
,
had
been
sent
me
,
I
should
have
endeavoured
his
satisfaction
,
or
if
theirs
could
have
been
otherwise
effected
whom
I
serve
in
it
,
and
mine
own
reputation
preserved
,
who
have
made
implicite
reference
to
this
in
another
Book
(
a
sharp
reply
to
which
I
am
yet
to
expect
)
perchance
I
might
have
chosen
rather
to
lose
my
pains
,
than
give
such
a
person
scandal
or
confront
his
censure
,
professiing
in
the
words
of
my
learned
Collegue
heretofore
,
now
a
most
singularly
devout
and
acute
Divine
,
in
the
case
of
like
question
,
and
appeal
unto
your
Lordship
,
That
I
would
rather
dye
,
than
either
willingly
give
occasion
or
countenance
to
a
schism
in
the
Church
of
England
(
I
mean
that
Church
of
England
which
conform'd
her self
to
the
Ancient
Latin
and
Greek
Church
)
and
I
would
suffer
much
evil
before
I
would
displease
my
dear
Brethren
(
I
adde
such
as
keep
close
to
their
due
principles
)
in
the
service
of
Jesus
and
in
the
Ministeries
of
that
Church
:
Wherefore
my
Lord
,
if
any
thing
of
that
nature
have
pass'd
my
Pen
,
in
the
vacancie
of
a
Synod
.
I
submit
to
any
Canon
of
retractation
or
penance
shall
be
prescribed
me
by
your
Reverence
,
together
with
that
joint
primitive
Oracle
,
and
most
worthy
person
,
who●
the
Doctor
took
(
and
I
do
by
his
wary
precedent
)
for
the
other
Pillar
of
his
Sanctuary
▪
the
Lord
Bishop
of
Sarum
,
whose
countena●ce
and
favour
I
some
years
since
was
honoured
with
,
more
I
presume
for
the
integrity
of
my
principles
,
than
any
meritorious
pregnancie
in
my
parts
.
But
my
Lord
if
some
timorous
or
superstitious
Ca●t●le
in
my
Grave
Censour
,
would
keep
me
so
far
from
Rome
,
as
to
thrust
me
into
the
precincts
of
Geneva
,
I
confesse
to
him
and
all
the
world
,
that
upon
demonstrative
reasons
,
I
am
much
more
affraid
in
Christianities
behalf
of
the
Leman
Lake
,
than
Tiber
,
and
look
with
more
horrour
on
the
rebellions
sprung
,
and
reprobatory
damnation
denounc'd
from
thence
,
than
on
any
encroachment
upon
Kings
,
or
indulgencies
unto
the
people
,
so
prodigally
made
by
,
and
defused
from
the
Papal
See
.
In
fine
my
Lord
,
the
glosses
are
not
many
I
have
upon
points
controverted
between
the
Church
of
Rome
and
us
▪
if
those
few
be
so
short
as
to
render
my
sense
suspected
,
I
will
enlarge
them
when
call'd
upon
,
to
the
full
state
I
have
made
of
them
deliberately
unto
my self
.
For
the
gall
in
my
ink
,
I
shall
say
onely
with
your
Lordships
leave
,
I
know
not
where
more
commendably
or
excusably
,
I
may
affect
to
give
it
a
deeper
black
,
than
in
the
relation
of
their
proceedings
,
whose
souls
were
as
red
as
scarlet
,
and
the
issue
of
all
their
enterprises
died
in
bloud
.
I
may
be
no
lesse
concerned
to
anticipate
an
after
c●nsure
,
incident
from
persons
of
another
rank
I
mean
such
of
the
Scotch
Nobility
,
or
related
to
them
,
whose
faith
and
gallantry
hath
effaced
such
their
ignoble
progenitours
impeachments
in
their
coates
,
and
yet
may
conceive
their
Names
and
Families
purposely
tainted
by
my
Pen
,
where
I
make
a
blot
in
some
branch
of
their
pedigree
or
descent
.
To
whom
I
professe
I
searched
not
their
Heraldry
for
a
distinction
▪
but
as
I
intended
no
man
injury
or
disrepute
,
so
I
preferred
necessary
truth
to
his
or
their
vulgar
honour
in
my
design
.
Which
being
in
that
respect
a
case
of
Conscience
,
craves
likewise
your
Lordships
cognisance
,
though
as
it
regards
the
rule
of
prudence
,
I
must
answer
it
at
my
hazard
.
For
the
rest
,
my
Lord
,
til
it
appear
by
more
than
an
obscure
single
suffering
that
I
have
infringed
the
canon
of
Christian
Charity
,
or
deviated
from
the
doctrine
and
practice
of
the
Ancient
Church
.
I
humbly
crave
your
Lordships
favourable
protection
of
this
essay
,
and
of
my
name
in
that
communion
into
the
Ministery
whereof
your
ordination
introduced
me
,
which
no
new
discoveries
nor
discourses
,
in
forreign
parts
have
obliged
my
reason
to
desert
,
nor
doth
any
self-conviction
discourage
me
in
my
subscription
as
that
Churches
,
and
My
Honoured
Lord
,
Caen
Aug.
27.
1657.
Your
Lordships
most
humbly
obedient
Son
and
Servant
Ri.
Watson
.
HISTORICALL
Collections
.
IF
the
sacred
Oracles
and
Records
,
which
Christ
with
his
Apostles
,
Evangelists
,
Disciples
,
delivered
unto
the
ears
,
and
deposited
in
the
hands
of
the
Primitive-Church
,
had
been
at
large
in
every
particular
,
preserved
,
and
by
the
same
authority
successively
transmitted
,
whereby
that
smaler
volume
of
their
writings
hath
been
manifested
to
our
knowledge
,
and
commended
to
our
belief
;
the
errours
and
abuses
in
Christianity
had
been
fewer
,
or
refomation
whensoever
necessary
,
more
regular
;
such
a
standing
rule
giving
sudden
Evidence
against
the
least
obliquities
which
Schism
and
Heresie
could
transgresse
in
;
and
being
a
Bar
against
the
boldness
of
those
spirits
,
which
,
when
the
letter
of
Scripture
is
not
(
as
it
never
but
is
in
the
sense
)
clear
and
powerfull
to
confound
them
,
rather
multiply
than
rectifie
things
amisse
,
upon
their
pretended
priviledge
of
prophesie
or
revelation
.
The
mystery
of
Gods
providence
in
withholding
this
succour
from
his
people
,
is
not
so
much
to
be
repin'd
at
,
as
his
mercy
to
be
magnified
in
administring
the
remainder
of
those
helps
,
which
is
compleat
to
the
support
and
satisfaction
of
any
moderate
inquirer
after
the
general
of
doctrine
,
and
particulars
of
discipline
,
the
explication
of
the
former
,
and
enlargement
of
the
latter
being
ever
taken
into
the
power
of
the
Catholick-Church
,
which
in
its
orginal
purity
,
so
studied
a
visible
communion
of
Saints
,
that
either
by
expresse
dispensation
,
or
indulgent
connivance
,
many
national
,
provincial
,
yea
,
in●eriour
corporate
or
collegiate
Congregations
,
had
that
latitude
of
difference
,
and
singularity
of
profession
or
practice●
,
for
which
any
proper
〈◊〉
pretence
could
be
produced
before
a
general
Council
,
or
in
lesse
matters
,
before
their
Patriarch
and
Bishops
,
vested
with
authority
to
such
purpose
,
as
wherein
their
content
and
complacency
kept
all
devout
well-meaning
Christians
from
Schism
and
a
scandalous
separation
.
Others
whose
pride
,
ambition
,
or
covetousnesse
,
carried
them
beyond
the
canon
of
moderation
and
peace
,
were
severely
censur'd
,
curs'd
,
excommunicated
,
cut
off
from
Christs
body
,
which
like
rotten
members
they
might
otherwise
have
corrupted
and
gangrand
,
having
no
re-admission
or
re-union
to
that
holy
,
sound
continuity
,
without
serious
and
open
repentance
,
humble
submission
to
the
high
authority
of
the
Church
,
which
if
they
persisted
obstinately
to
contemn
or
neglect
,
the
power
of
truth
subdued
their
doctrines
,
the
storm
of
Gods
wrath
dispersed
their
conventicles
,
the
sword
of
his
vengeance
executed
their
persons
in
some
exemplary
temporal
death
,
if
it
pursued
them
not
to
eternal
damnation
.
How
far
the
visible
Church
,
whether
Romane
or
Greek
,
made
at
any
time
a
general
defection
from
her self
,
in
a
manifest
detortion
of
,
or
declention
and
deviation
from
her
own
canon
,
is
neither
my
design
nor
duty
(
in
reference
to
my
present
undertaking
)
to
search
,
no
more
than
to
condemn
or
vindicate
particular
Churches
in
their
separate
condition
.
The
Sum
of
what
I
intend
in
this
my
Treatise
is
,
to
shew
how
the
Scotch-Presbyterian
Kirk
,
which
when
time
was
,
would
have
fain
been
accepted
as
the
pattern
of
purity
,
and
clearest
extraction
of
Christian
Religion
,
began
Reformation
upon
no
deep
sense
,
no
deliberate
Examen
how
corruption
crept
in
;
nor
proceeded
according
to
any
other
rule
than
the
Anomalie
of
a
prejudicate
fancy
or
premeditated
malice
,
which
intended
rather
the
destruction
of
persons
,
than
composition
of
minds
●o
a
due
temper
and
sobriety
in
worship
;
having
no
other
commission
but
what
was
given
out
by
the
spirit
of
disobedience
and
errour
;
nor
the
countenance
of
any
precedent
beside
what
might
be
cited
from
the
unhappy
successe
in
the
attempts
of
Rebellion
and
Schism
.
The
first
Sect
of
preparatory
Reformers
their
History
pretends
to
,
were
the
Lollards
of
Kyle
,
who
in
the
reign
of
King
Iames
the
fourth
,
about
the
year
1494.
becoming
numerous
and
troublesome
both
to
Church
and
State
,
were
accused
to
the
King
not
onely
as
Hereticks
,
but
Rebels
.
The
chief
points
or
articles
insisted
on
,
which
I
am
concerned
to
observe
were
these
.
That
it
is
not
lawful
to
fight
for
the
faith
,
nor
to
defend
the
faith
by
the
sword
.
Knox
(
to
save
the
reputation
of
his
own
proceedings
)
adds
,
if
we
be
not
driven
to
it
by
necessity
,
which
is
above
all
law
.
By
the
former
clause
the
sword
is
taken
out
of
the
Kings
hand
,
who
must
be
no
military
Defender
of
the
Faith
:
by
the
latter
it
is
given
to
the
people
,
whose
safety
having
a
supremacy
above
the
law
,
may
frame
an
arbitrary
necessity
to
rebell
.
That
Christ
ordained
no
Priests
to
consecrate
as
they
do
in
the
Romish
Church
,
these
many
years
.
The
sense
whereof
is
best
interpreted
by
another
.
That
every
faithfull
man
and
woman
is
a
Priest
.
So
that
every
one
consequently
(
even
of
either
Sex
)
may
administer
the
Sacrament
of
the
Altar
,
or
at
least
,
that
no
ordination
is
necessary
to
endow
or
qualifie
him
that
consecrates
.
Or
lastly
,
That
no
particular
form
of
words
proceeding
from
his
mouth
,
have
,
by
Christs
institution
,
any
speciall
efficacy
to
the
transmutation
of
the
common
elements
into
mystical
and
Sacramental
essences
,
conferring
grace
upon
,
or
operating
it
in
the
worthy
receiver
.
That
Tythes
ought
not
to
be
given
to
Ecclesiastical
men
,
as
they
were
then
called
(
to
them
that
since
are
called
Classical
,
I
think
they
are
not
due
)
to
wit
,
wholly
,
saith
Knox
,
but
a
part
to
the
Poor
,
Widow
,
or
Orphans
,
and
other
pious
uses
:
and
good
reason
surely
;
for
if
the
widow
hath
them
,
these
pharisaical
hypocrites
know
whence
to
fetch
them
,
and
under
what
pretence
to
devour
the
houses
where
they
are
.
As
great
impiety
may
be
cloaked
under
the
name
of
pious
uses
,
when
the
principal
must
be
supposed
the
advancement
of
the
discipline
,
toward
which
if
a
chargeable
rebellion
be
found
necessary
,
not
onely
the
tenth
but
the
whole
stock
must
be
piously
imployed
,
and
the
Poor
with
the
Orphan
set
out
of
the
way
.
That
Christ
at
his
comming
hath
taken
away
all
power
from
Kings
to
judge
,
and
That
the
unction
of
Kings
ceased
at
the
comming
of
Christ
.
Of
this
Knox
is
ash●med
and
will
therefore
needs
have
the
article
not
to
be
the
Lollards
their
Ancestors
,
but
the
venemous
accusation
of
the
enemies
,
whereas
both
in
his
time
and
ours
howsoever
disguised
,
according
to
this
doctrine
hath
proceeded
the
whole
practice
of
the
Presbytery
against
their
Princes
.
That
the
blessings
of
Bishops
are
of
no
value
,
which
passeth
onely
with
this
charitable
animadversion
by
the
same
hand
(
of
dumb
dogs
they
should
have
been
styled
.
)
That
the
excommunication
of
the
Kirk
is
not
to
be
feared
.
That
in
no
case
it
is
lawfull
to
swear
.
That
true
Christians
receive
the
body
of
Iesus
Christ
every
day
by
faith
.
So
no
need
of
the
Sacrament
.
That
after
Matrimony
be
contracted
and
consummate
,
the
Kirk
may
make
no
divorcement
.
That
faith
should
not
be
given
to
Miracles
;
so
that
it
should
seem
Christ
was
mistaken
in
his
means
to
propagate
the
Gospel
.
That
we
are
no-more
bound
to
pray
in
the
Kirk
than
in
other
places
.
That
they
which
are
called
Princes
and
Prelates
in
the
Church
are
thievs
and
robbers
.
These
men
Knox
calls
the
servants
of
God
,
whose
merciful
providence
he
magnifies
in
preserving
the
register
of
their
tenents
,
who
without
publick
doctrine
(
he
means
by
the
authority
of
a
general
Assembly
)
gave
so
great
light
to
the
Kingdom
of
Scotland
.
The
importunity
used
by
some
of
their
faction
about
the
King
prevailed
for
their
pardon
,
the
rather
because
some
ridiculous
apertnesse
in
their
answers
rendred
them
,
men
not
of
depth
to
carry
on
a
design
,
and
this
discovery
was
thought
enough
to
awe
them
,
and
the
check
they
had
from
Court
to
restrain
them
;
for
many
years
after
was
little
controversie
had
about
Religion
,
untill
Patrick
Hamilton
Abbot
of
Ferne
,
a
man
though
devout
,
yet
of
an
hot
and
violentspirit
,
discontented
at
home
,
passeth
over
into
Germanie
,
where
at
Wittenberg
meeting
with
Luther
and
Melancthon
,
as
he
encreased
his
dislike
of
the
doctrine
he
left
professed
in
Scotland
;
so
he
did
his
animosity
against
the
persons
of
Bishops
and
such
as
had
the
government
of
that
Church
.
The
zeal
of
Gods
glory
(
as
Knox
writeth
)
did
so
eat
him
up
,
that
he
could
not
long
continue
to
remain
there
,
but
to
ease
his
stomack
he
returns
into
his
Country
,
and
as
if
he
had
been
vested
with
Apostolick
Commission
,
he
solicites
,
disputes
,
and
with
too
much
virulen●y
declaimes
against
the
divinity
of
the
times
,
taking
the
Reformation
both
of
Pulpit
and
Schools
into
his
care
.
The
sound
hereof
comes
soon
to
the
ears
of
the
Archbishop
of
S.
Andrews
,
the
particulars
were
chiefly
debated
by
Cambell
a
Dominican
Frier
and
learned
Thomist
,
with
whom
he
had
disputed
at
large
,
and
being
somewhat
pleased
that
he
had
as
he
thought
,
and
the
other
professed
,
made
him
his
convert
,
he
was
▪
beyond
expectation
,
by
the
same
man
accused
of
Heresie
,
and
upon
his
articles
condemned
to
be
burnt
,
for
trifles
(
as
Knox
saies
)
viz.
Pilgrimage
,
Purgatory
,
Prayer
to
Saints
,
and
for
the
dead
:
Yet
as
great
a
Martyr
as
he
was
,
his
printed
work
shewes
him
to
have
been
a
more
subtil
Sophister
,
than
orthodox
Divine
.
To
omit
the
great
discouragement
he
gives
to
Christian
endeavours
,
by
this
assertion
in
terminis
,
The
law
bindeth
us
to
do
that
which
is
impossible
for
us
,
and
the
cold
water
he
casts
upon
practick
obedience
by
this
,
The
law
doth
nothing
but
command
thee
,
explaining
it
to
be
onely
to
inform
our
knowledge
,
God
not
requiring
nor
expecting
performance
,
putting
off
that
obligation
upon
Christ
:
His
perverting
the
sense
of
many
texts
in
Scripture
,
from
which
he
draws
two
ungrounded
licentious
conclusions
,
Faith
onely
saveth
,
Increduli●y
onely
condemneth
,
whereby
good
works
are
cashir'd
,
and
a
salve
is
found
for
all
bad
ones
,
the
world
,
the
flesh
,
the
Devill
can
suggest
to
:
His
bold
enlargement
of
the
Apostles
assertion
,
excluding
from
our
Iustification
Charity
,
which
is
the
work
of
the
Gospell
,
which
we
act
by
the
benefit
of
Christs
passion
,
and
by
the
assistance
of
his
grace
,
because
he
exempts
the
works
of
the
law
:
His
sophistry
in
an
antithetical
argument
,
No
works
make
us
righteous
,
Ergo
,
No
works
make
us
unrighteous
,
whereas
S.
Paul
saith
,
That
the
unrighteous
shall
not
inherit
the
Kingdom
of
heaven
,
and
he
declares
such
unrighteous
,
as
do
the
works
of
the
fl●sh
.
Mism●k●ng
works
onely
characters
of
a
good
or
evil
man
,
and
the
reward
to
bear
,
by
consequence
,
no
proportion
unto
them
,
which
is
contrary
to
the
Evangelicall
doctrine
.
That
God
will
reward
every
man
according
to
his
works
:
Beside
that
through
the
whole
series
of
his
wri●ing
,
he
makes
Christianity
an
idle
speculative
profession
,
a
mere
perspective
of
the
passion
of
Christ
.
For
all
which
I
impute
not
to
him
the
guilt
of
heresie
,
nor
excuse
them
that
executed
him
as
such
.
The
reverence
that
had
been
paid
him
for
his
strictness
of
life
and
ability
of
parts
,
according
to
the
learning
of
that
age
,
was
much
augmented
by
a
constant
resolution
at
his
death
,
which
put
the
younger
students
and
novices
upon
a
combination
for
maintaining
his
Tenents
,
and
the
breach
they
made
,
let
out
some
Friars
to
rail
against
the
abuses
of
the
Bishops
.
The
patronage
of
Mr.
Gawin
Logie
and
Mr.
Iohn
Maire
added
some
reputation
to
these
actions
,
and
a
reformation
was
attempted
by
some
more
unworthy
instruments
upon
their
credit
.
The
light
pulpit
discourse
of
Friar
Arithe
with
his
gossips
catched
some
slight
people
in
a
jest
,
while
other
graver
men
by
more
serious
arguments
,
multiplied
consider●ble
proselytes
in
good
earnest
,
insomuch
as
the
Archbishop
of
S.
Andrews
,
according
to
the
rigour
of
his
Religion
,
began
to
call
for
more
fire
and
faggots
,
but
was
stopt
a
little
by
the
witty
advice
of
Mr.
Iohn
Lindsey
,
who
told
him
,
My
Lord
:
If
ye
will
burn
them
,
let
them
be
burnt
in
hollow
Cellars
,
for
the
smoak
of
Mr.
Patrick
Hamilton
hath
infected
as
many
as
it
blew
upon
,
some
touch
of
it
was
thought
to
have
tainted
Alexander
Seton
a
black
Friar
and
Conf●ssor
to
King
Iames
the
fifth
,
who
presuming
upon
the
opportunity
of
his
privacy
,
endeavoured
to
withdraw
the
Kings
affections
from
the
Bishops
,
and
his
conscience
from
some
part
of
his
Religion
,
which
by
more
prevalent
counsell
of
Ecclesiastical
persons
about
the
Court
,
made
him
be
discharged
of
his
office
,
and
his
dread
of
the
fire
,
carried
him
out
of
the
Realme
.
From
Berwick
by
letter
he
appeals
to
the
King
,
whom
notwithstanding
he
accuseth
to
himself
of
weakness
and
ignorance
,
being
very
invective
against
the
Churchmen
who
at
that
time
,
as
well
as
the
Presbyters
since
,
waved
in
many
things
their
due
subjection
,
and
in
the
name
of
Christ
took
upon
themselves
,
the
authority
of
the
King
.
I
finde
no
mention
of
any
answer
returned
,
but
I
do
of
his
progresse
from
thence
to
London
,
where
at
S.
Pauls
Crosse
he
retracted
some
of
the
new
divinity
he
had
published
.
After
this
for
ten
years
space
these
violent
oppositions
in
Religion
were
interrupted
,
the
civil
warres
making
other
disputes
and
partizans
upon
temporal
principles
among
the
Scots
.
In
which
time
began
a
reformation
in
England
,
from
King
Henry
the
eights
differences
with
the
Pope
,
whether
the
pillage
of
Abbies
,
and
demolishing
other
religious
places
,
easily
invited
the
Scotish
labourers
,
who
would
alwayes
be
found
at
leisure
for
such
work
.
About
the
year
1534.
began
a
new
Inquisition
in
Scotland
,
wherein
was
eminent
the
perverse
demeanour
of
one
David
Straton
an
ignorant
Gentleman
,
though
in
the
Catalogue
of
their
Martyrs
▪
of
whom
when
the
Bishop
of
Murray
,
Prior
of
S.
Andrews
,
demanded
the
customary
Tythe
of
his
Fish
,
his
answer
was
,
If
they
would
have
Tythe
of
that
which
his
servants
wan
in
the
se●
,
it
were
but
reason
that
they
should
come
and
receive
it
where
they
got
the
stock
,
and
so
(
as
it
was
constantly
affirmed
)
he
caused
his
servants
to
cast
the
tenth
fish
into
the
sea
.
The
processe
of
cursing
laid
against
him
by
the
Church
being
encountered
with
his
contempt
was
re-enforced
by
a
summons
to
answer
for
his
heresie
,
to
maintain
which
having
hitherto
no
pretense
,
but
the
perversness
of
his
will
,
the
Laird
of
Dun
Arskin
very
lately
illuminated
in
the
point
lends
him
his
lamp
to
look
out
some
better
reason
,
and
because
he
could
not
read
,
bids
him
hearken
,
which
he
did
with
more
diligence
than
devotion
,
desirous
to
meet
with
what
might
colour
the
affectation
of
his
errours
,
to
which
purpose
the
Laird
of
Lawristons
field-lecture
conduced
luckily
,
chancing
to
be
rather
out
of
S.
Matthew
than
the
Prophet
Malachy
,
where
the
Pharisaical
tything
of
Mint
and
Cummin
being
taxed
might
serve
his
turn
to
slight
all
Christian
Decimations
as
publican-extortions
,
and
no
weighty
matters
of
the
law
.
Though
that
was
not
the
text
that
brought
the
spirit
of
prayer
upon
him
,
but
another
on
which
he
might
have
made
a
better
comment
by
his
repentance
than
unwildy
resolution
;
and
known
,
that
the
denial
of
tenths
is
the
denial
of
God
in
his
institution
before
men
,
and
may
perhaps
be
retaliated
before
the
holy
Angels
by
his
Sonne
.
Sentence
of
death
being
passed
,
he
asked
grace
of
the
King
,
which
Knox
saith
,
he
willingly
would
have
granted
,
but
the
Bishop
proudly
answered
,
[
no
more
proudly
than
the
Presbyters
more
than
once
since
then
]
That
the
Kings
hands
were
bound
in
that
case
,
and
that
he
had
no
grace
to
give
to
such
as
by
their
law
were
condemned
.
Notwithstanding
the
severity
exercised
upon
him
and
many
other
,
the
Reformation
(
for
precedents
unto
which
by
this
time
their
Merchants
and
Mariners
had
traffiqued
in
forreign
parts
)
makes
its
way
into
the
cloysters
,
and
by
Friar
Killors
contrivance
(
which
Iohn
Knox
seems
to
approve
of
very
well
)
shews
it self
upon
the
stage
in
a
Satyrick
play
,
and
that
on
a
Good-Friday
morning
the
subject
whereof
was
the
passion
of
our
Saviour
Christ
,
most
envious
paralels
being
made
between
the
Iewish
Priests
and
the
Scotish
Bishops
.
This
gave
the
occasion
of
a
more
close
search
into
the
Friars
opinions
,
which
being
found
such
as
suited
not
with
the
present
profession
and
government
of
the
Church
,
sent
him
with
many
other
too
zealous
reforming
complices
unto
the
fire
.
Not
long
after
George
Buchanan
laid
his
cockatrice
egge
,
not
onely
of
Iudaisme
,
which
himself
hatched
in
a
Lenten
meeting
at
the
eating
of
a
Paschal
lamb
,
but
of
Schisme
and
Rebellion
,
which
His
Majesty
endeavoured
to
crush
upon
the
first
discovery
,
notwithstanding
the
trust
he
had
reposed
in
him
of
instituting
some
his
natural
children
.
He
was
by
the
Kings
special
Order
(
as
they
say
)
committed
to
prison
,
whence
he
made
an
unhappy
escape
,
to
the
ruine
almost
of
that
Kingdome
by
his
writing
.
All
this
while
the
Royal
Reformers
in
England
marched
furiously
,
so
as
King
Iames
had
no
minde
to
meet
them
at
York
,
nor
give
King
Henry
there
the
interview
he
desired
.
This
,
though
imputed
to
his
Clergy
,
was
taken
as
a
discourtesie
from
himself
,
which
set
the
English
jealousie
on
fire
,
and
that
at
last
burnt
out
into
a
warre
.
King
Iames
was
not
so
absolute
at
home
as
to
cement
at
pleasure
the
Scotish
intestine
divisions
,
where
the
equality
of
power
did
so
mi-party
his
thoughts
,
that
he
knew
not
wch
side
to
head
,
nor
had
he
alwaie●
the
liberty
of
his
choice
.
His
distrust
of
both
made
him
enter
into
secret
counsel
with
his
Clergy
,
by
whose
advice
and
assistance
he
levied
on
a
suddain
a
v●ry
numerous
Army
,
the
design
whereof
was
scarcely
thought
of
in
England
,
when
it
actualy
entred
upon
the
borders
.
But
such
scruples
were
scatered
by
some
disaffected
persons
to
the
Church
and
Crown
,
as
made
most
of
the
Souldiery
dispute
the
justce
of
the
quarrell
when
they
were
to
handle
their
armes
,
or
without
consulting
their
conscience
,
leave
them
in
the
field
.
The
loss
of
this
Army
so
troubled
the
King
that
he
cast
off
all
care
to
recruit
it
,
and
measuring
the
shortnesse
of
his
daies
by
the
extremity
of
his
grief
,
he
becomes
too
true
a
prophet
of
his
death
Some
six
dayes
before
his
Queen
was
delivered
at
Linlitquow
of
a
daughter
,
whom
Iohn
Knox
,
very
civ●lly
calls
,
the
scourge
of
that
Realm
,
as
her
mother
,
one
that
brought
continuing
plagues
upon
the
same
,
and
that
h●r
whole
life
declared
h●r
to
be
such
.
No
lesse
did
his
brethren
spare
the
deceased
King
,
but
call'd
him
Murtherer
,
and
rejoyced
at
the
taking
away
of
such
an
enemy
to
Gods
truth
.
In
the
Kings
last
will
were
four
Protectors
o●Regents
of
the
Kingdome
appointed
;
the
Cardinall
of
S.
A●drews
,
the
Earls
of
Huntley
,
Arguyle
and
Murray
,
but
these
were
men
,
especially
while
in
the
Cardinals
company
,
very
unlikely
to
promote
the
new
Religion
,
or
the
more
unjustifiable
ends
of
the
pretended
Reformers
of
the
Church
.
The
young
Earl
of
Arran
was
found
a
fitter
subject
to
work
on
,
the
facility
of
his
nature
rendring
him
very
flexible
to
their
desires
,
and
the
narrownes
of
his
judgment
admitting
,
in
no
latitude
,
an
abilitie
to
counterplot
at
any
time
their
designs
,
or
a
discovery
of
their
purposes
,
but
what
they
laid
directly
in
his
sight
.
His
pretence
of
the
second
place
in
succession
to
the
Crown
gave
him
colour
,
and
the
Lord
Grange
furnished
him
with
courage
,
to
claim
the
government
during
the
minority
of
the
Queen
;
which
that
faction
of
the
Nobility
soon
bestowed
upon
him
,
who
had
more
will
to
rule
with
him
,
than
reason
to
suppose
that
in
his
hands
lay
the
best
security
for
her
person
.
Yet
to
enable
him
for
that
,
or
some
other
more
secret
ends
,
were
presently
delivered
up
to
him
the
Kings
Treasure
,
Jewe●ls
,
Plate
,
Horse
,
&c.
which
notwithstanding
they
scarcely
give
him
liberty
to
look
on
,
before
they
set
him
to
study
controversies
in
Religion
,
and
tutor
him
as
well
in
the
polemick
divinity
,
as
politicks
of
that
party
.
And
to
point
the
bluntness
of
his
nature
by
some
new
animosity
of
spirit
,
they
shew
him
his
own
name
,
among
others
,
in
a
private
Schedule
of
the
K.
being
a
memoriall
of
such
as
of
whose
disaffection
to
his
person
,
government
religion
,
good
notice
being
taken
,
as
good
care
might
be
had
to
prevent
the
●ll
effects
of
that
humour
,
which
they
suggested
to
be
a
destination
of
them
unto
ruin
.
This
was
called
the
bloudy
Scroll
,
and
the
discovery
of
it
,
a
great
deliverance
of
Gods
,
which
some
godly
men
,
as
they
term'd
themselves
(
that
is
,
such
as
whose
guilt
made
them
conscious
how
much
concerned
they
were
in
it
)
fearing
the
execution
of
their
ends
and
intents
thereof
,
being
left
to
the
Cardinal
as
a
Legacy
by
the
King
,
pressed
the
Governour
to
●ake
notice
of
,
to
betake
himself
for
what
pu●pose
God
had
exalted
him
to
that
honour
,
and
how
great
expectation
was
had
of
him
.
The
principal
of
their
meaning
,
being
to
depose
the
Cardinal
for
their
own
security
,
he
understood
not
,
and
therefore
they
put
upon
him
one
Guilliame
a
lapsed
Friar
,
with
some
others
to
be
priviledged
in
the
preaching
down
Superstition
,
a
word
of
as
great
extent
in
those
times
as
since
,
from
which
was
taken
as
much
advantage
for
a
licentious
and
violent
Reformation
.
But
the
Friars
arguments
being
more
powerfull
to
draw
the
people
into
sedition
,
than
the
Bishops
to
a
dispute
:
one
of
their
servants
thought
to
rime
down
the
ridiculous
part
of
the
practice
in
a
ballad
,
for
which
he
had
like
to
have
lost
his
life
,
as
the
Cardinal
his
liberty
,
who
for
some
time
was
their
prisoner
in
Dalkeith
and
Seaton
;
but
this
project
being
advanced
,
and
another
pass'd
the
vote
in
Parliament
about
a
marriage
between
Prince
Edward
of
England
and
their
Queen
,
whether
by
command
or
connivance
of
the
Governour
,
or
intercession
of
the
Queen
Mother
,
to
which
they
adde
the
bribing
of
his
keeper
the
L●rd
Seaton
,
and
Lethington
,
he
was
soon
after
set
free
.
About
this
time
they
obtained
with
some
difficulty
the
use
of
the
Bible
in
the
vulgar
tongue
,
not
to
lea●n
out
of
it
the
duty
of
obedience
to
the
supreme
Magistrate
,
not
to
study
the
sincere
doctrine
and
sense
of
the
holy
word
;
but
to
have
the
same
advantage
with
the
hereticks
of
old
,
to
wrest
the
authority
of
sacred
writ
out
of
the
hands
of
the
Catholick
Church
,
and
to
serve
their
purposes
at
any
time
,
rend
the
letter
from
the
meaning
of
the
holy
Spirit
.
For
this
they
cited
the
pattern
of
primitive
Christians
,
whom
they
never
meant
to
imitate
,
and
the
authority
of
some
Fathers
,
who
countenanced
that
indulgence
to
humble
holy
men
;
but
in
canvasing
the
question
,
I
finde
not
them
calling
upon
Tertullian
,
who
spake
his
minde
too
freely
,
adjudging
them
for
Hereticks
,
who
came
short
of
them
in
pertinacy
and
errour
,
and
excluded
all
that
were
so
from
any
benefit
of
the
Bible
in
their
oppositions
unto
the
Church
.
The
first
good
use
they
made
of
it
was
the
garnishing
their
libells
and
rebellious
Pamphlets
;
and
the
first
fruits
of
the
new
amity
between
England
and
them
,
was
the
l●berty
of
getting
thence
in
great
numbers
,
the
most
angry
Treatises
penned
in
favour
of
King
Henries
fury
against
the
Church
.
The
contract
of
Marriage
was
made
solemnly
in
the
Abbey
of
Hallirud-house
,
to
the
confirmation
of
which
,
howsoever
the
Governour
was
prevail'd
with
to
have
Christs
sacred
body
b●oken
between
him
and
Mr.
Sadler
the
Ambassadour
from
England
;
yet
the
Queen
and
Cardinal
and
what
they
call
the
faction
of
France
,
which
was
the
principal
nobility
,
are
confessed
to
have
no
consent
in
it
,
upon
which
the
Commissioners
were
afterward
questioned
for
their
proceedings
,
but
being
maintained
by
the
great
politick
Patriot
,
the
pretended
Parliament
,
it
mattered
not
what
the
Holy
spiritual
father
,
or
natural
mother
had
to
say
against
them
,
the
young
Queen
must
be
disposed
of
as
they
thought
fittest
,
and
the
great
Seals
of
both
Kingdomes
,
for
a
second
ratification
,
interchanged
.
But
soon
after
came
out
of
France
I.
Hamilton
,
the
Abbot
of
Paisly
,
and
Mr.
David
Painter
afterward
Bishop
of
Rosse
,
men
formerly
cried
up
by
the
Reformers
for
their
learning
,
life
,
religion
;
and
expected
by
them
to
become
pillars
of
the
new
Temple
they
were
building
;
but
their
private
instructions
directed
them
to
the
Court
,
with
new
advice
to
the
Governour
,
to
consider
whither
his
petty
Counsellors
were
carrying
him
;
what
the
consequences
might
be
of
the
alterations
in
religion
;
what
commodity
in
continuing
the
ancient
League
with
France
;
and
what
hazzard
of
his
own
●ightful
succession
to
the
crown
under
the
displeasure
of
the
Pope
,
who
legitimated
his
birth
by
favouring
the
marriage
of
his
mother
after
the
divorcement
of
his
father
from
Elizabeth
Hume
then
alive
,
although
he
might
have
had
security
,
as
to
the
last
,
from
the
Reformers
,
who
acknowledged
afterward
they
would
with
their
whole
force
have
fortified
him
in
the
place
that
God
had
given
unto
him
,
and
would
never
have
called
in
Question
things
done
in
time
of
darkness
.
So
it
seems
they
can
digest
the
Popes
dispensations
when
they
serve
their
turn
.
The
Abbots
counsel
being
observed
to
make
impression
in
the
Governor
,
some
of
the
Courtiers
took
courage
to
confront
his
zealous
party
,
and
one
let
flye
a
desperate
speech
.
That
neither
He
nor
his
friends
could
ever
be
at
quietness
,
till
a
dozen
of
those
Knaves
,
that
abus'd
his
Grace
were
hanged
.
Some
of
them
about
him
that
had
deserved
it
,
disliked
the
liberty
taken
to
speak
so
much
truth
,
and
secretly
withdrew
themselves
.
Friar
Guilliame
being
inhibited
his
licentious
preaching
,
went
for
Engand
,
others
had
their
dismission
,
and
the
Lord
Governour
betook
himself
unto
the
Cardinal
,
&
Lords
better
affected
unto
the
Q.
This
was
call'd
renouncing
the
profession
of
Christ
Iesus
holy
Gospell
,
as
if
the
Christian
Creed
were
then
confined
to
the
Cabinet
,
as
since
to
the
Consistory
.
But
this
impetuous
calumnie
forc'd
not
through
his
resolution
,
nor
did
his
rash
oath
,
lately
taken
to
the
English
Ambassadour
oblige
him
to
withstand
the
counsell
of
breaking
the
imperfect
League
,
the
onely
difficulty
was
how
to
raise
mony
for
preparations
requisite
to
a
defensive
warre
▪
which
they
must
now
expect
from
King
Henry
of
England
,
whose
will
in
woing
,
though
for
his
Sonne
,
must
not
be
checked
without
●evenge
.
Toward
this
the
Clergy
,
upon
the
motion
of
the
Cardinal
,
who
made
it
a
case
of
conscience
in
the
vindication
of
Religion
,
raised
great
contribution
,
,
and
an
opportunity
of
breaking
the
league
offer'd
it self
,
when
the
hostages
for
the
observance
of
conditions
were
to
be
delivered
,
the
denial
of
whom
was
seconded
with
the
stay
in
Scotland
of
some
noble
personages
late
prisoners
in
England
,
who
had
their
liberty
but
on
parole
or
bail
,
none
returning
to
custody
but
the
Earl
of
Cassils
,
who
stood
more
upon
his
honor
,
&
word
passed
unto
King
Henry
,
then
his
duty
to
serve
his
Queen
and
Country
,
for
which
singular
instance
of
adhering
unto
his
promise
,
and
for
the
hopes
King
Henry
had
that
being
gratified
with
his
liberty
,
he
might
gain
him
to
some
future
service
,
he
commended
his
fidelity
,
rewarded
him
and
sent
him
home
;
but
being
deceived
in
the
rest
,
and
by
the
Governour
in
the
contract
,
he
seiz'd
upon
all
the
Scotish
Ships
with●n
his
ports
,
and
proclaim'd
a
warre
,
yet
made
no
haste
to
it
that
Summe●
,
but
us'd
the
prudence
and
industry
of
his
Ambassadour
before
he
recall'd
him
,
and
afterward
of
the
party
he
had
in
Scotland
,
to
regain
the
Governours
faith
in
the
performance
of
his
word
.
In
the
mean
time
comes
from
France
the
young
Earl
of
Lenox
,
who
setting
aside
the
custom
the
Governour
had
by
the
Popes
cherishing
the
divorce
,
was
reputed
to
have
a
near●r
relation
unto
the
Crown
,
and
so
far
said
to
be
justified
in
his
pretences
by
the
deceased
King
,
as
that
he
had
intended
to
declare
him
succ●ssor
in
default
of
heirs
.
Much
contrivance
is
charged
on
the
Queen
Dowager
and
the
Cardinal
in
and
after
the
Earls
coming
over
,
somewhat
whereof
may
be
not
improbable
,
to
keep
the
Governour
more
firm
to
them
,
to
the
title
of
whose
estate
,
as
well
as
honour
,
the
Earl
was
rival
,
and
ready
to
step
into
all
,
if
the
importunity
of
that
par●y
he
first
headed
had
●ecovered
him
from
the
Court
,
which
prevailing
not
,
the
Earl
thereby
frustrate
of
his
hopes
,
and
the
amarous
addresses
he
made
to
the
Queen
Dowager
not
so
entertained
as
to
correspond
with
his
ambition
of
a
Royal
marriage
,
he
takes
livery
and
s●isin
of
what
was
left
him
,
the
forlorn
party
of
Reformers
,
joyning
his
with
their
counsells
and
discontents
.
His
interest
added
somewhat
to
the
number
they
got
together
out
of
anger
against
the
Cardinal
,
and
now
revenge
against
the
Governour
,
whom
they
took
to
be
a
creature
of
their
own
making
,
and
thought
he
would
have
continued
to
acknowledge
their
soveraignty
while
he
did
wear
the
badge
of
honour
they
bestowed
upon
him
.
Those
who
on
other
reasons
,
were
of
a
faction
for
England
came
in
to
them
.
Having
modell'd
their
Army
,
they
send
a
challenge
to
the
Cardinal
at
Edenburgh
,
undertaking
to
give
him
,
and
whatsoever
forces
would
come
out
against
them
,
battail
between
that
and
Leith
.
This
the
Cardinal
seemed
not
to
decline
,
yet
prudently
judging
the
medley
of
those
bravadoes
could
not
be
kept
long
together
,
and
that
he
might
have
a
greater
necessity
ere
long
to
use
a
better
Army
against
the
English
than
he
had
yet
in
readiness
;
put
the
appointment
off
from
day
to
day
,
whereupon
the
more
impatient
part
deserted
them
,
and
some
other
by
good
conference
received
good
s●tisfaction
;
to
that
their
General
the
young
Earl
became
jealous
of
the
remainder
,
and
thought
it
better
policy
to
resign
himself
,
and
pass
over
voluntarily
,
than
to
stay
till
he
were
fetched
by
his
enemies
,
or
delivered
up
by
his
despairing
friends
.
Thus
perswaded
,
he
goes
to
Edenburgh
,
where
he
was
entertained
with
a
lit●le
more
cu●tesie
in
the
City
than
he
would
have
been
in
the
field
;
yet
he
liked
not
the
complement
so
well
as
to
trust
to
it
,
but
by
the
advice
of
some
friends
,
withdrew
in
the
night
to
Glascow
,
and
from
thence
having
garison'd
the
Bishops
Palace
,
to
Dunbarton
Some
offers
were
made
of
an
accommodation
between
the
Governour
and
the
Earl
,
but
the
jealousies
on
both
sides
were
such
as
could
not
be
concentred
in
a
point
of
mutual
satisfaction
,
and
so
multiplied
into
counter
designs
and
perturbations
of
publick
p●ace
.
This
civil
discord
hastened
King
Henries
preparations
▪
who
in
the
beginning
of
May
1544.
poured
forces
into
Scotland
by
sea
and
land
,
which
troubled
many
the
great
ones
there
little
,
as
Sr.
George
Douglasse
,
who
being
taken
out
of
prison
upon
their
approach
,
said
in
meriment
;
I
thank
King
Henry
and
my
gentle
Masters
of
England
.
And
indeed
he
had
so
many
fellow
servants
devoted
to
the
English
,
that
the
Governour
and
Cardinal
could
not
raise
a
sufficient
power
of
loyal
subjects
to
make
resistance
.
So
the
Army
,
having
sacked
and
burn'd
Edenburgh
,
wrought
their
pleasure
at
Leith
and
other
places
adjacent
,
returned
home
.
After
this
,
the
Earl
of
Lenox
sends
an
expresse
into
France
with
as
advantageous
pretenses
as
he
could
contrive
,
for
his
proceedings
in
Scotland
;
but
King
Francis
,
who
advised
his
going
th●ther
to
some
better
purpose
than
upon
a
private
quarrell
he
had
against
the
Protector
to
raise
a
power
against
the
Crown
,
would
vouchsafe
his
Messenger
no
hearing
,
nor
his
Letters
reading
,
but
set
such
a
guard
upon
him
as
made
him
doubt
whether
he
had
the
liberty
of
his
person
,
at
least
fear
to
hazard
it
by
giving
intelligence
to
his
Lord
about
the
counsels
of
that
Court
.
This
straitned
the
Earl
in
the
necessity
he
was
reduced
to
of
seeking
some
protection
for
himself
:
In
the
midst
of
which
distraction
the
Governour
,
after
few
dayes
siege
,
took
the
Castle
of
Glascow
,
and
left
no
secure
sanctuary
for
the
Earl
but
England
,
which
he
soon
resolved
on
having
promises
of
his
welcome
,
yet
could
not
take
his
leave
without
attempting
some
revenge
upon
a
Territory
belonging
to
the
Hamiltons
,
wherein
he
gratified
his
passion
more
than
justified
his
prudence
,
or
satisfied
his
friends
,
who
were
so
sensible
of
the
losse
sustained
by
it
,
that
he
could
not
prevail
with
them
to
engage
again
;
yet
having
an
affected
fondnesse
to
keep
up
the
reputation
of
a
party
against
the
malignity
of
fortune
,
they
importuned
the
Earls
retirement
to
Dunbarton
Castle
:
but
his
own
courage
being
conquered
,
he
thought
no
place
inexpugnable
,
and
so
weather-beaten
at
land
he
put
himself
upon
the
mercy
of
the
sea
and
King
Henries
kindness
,
who
furnished
a
pillow
for
his
disquiet
and
dejected
thoughts
,
the
breast
of
Lady
Margaret
Douglasse
his
fair
N●ece
,
whom
he
propounded
acceptably
unto
him
for
a
Wife
.
The
headlesse
company
he
left
behinde
him
fearing
more
the
extremity
of
rigour
from
the
Hamiltons
,
which
by
their
rashness
they
had
merited
,
than
knowing
how
to
protect
themselves
,
like
desperate
persons
stood
prepared
to
do
mischief
,
though
with
no
hopes
to
survive
it
.
Upon
consideration
of
whose
perversness
,
or
compassion
unto
their
persons
,
the
Queen
Mother
rescued
them
from
their
enemies
and
themselves
,
taking
them
under
her
particular
command
and
care
;
and
so
preserved
their
lives
against
their
hopes
,
if
not
their
wills
,
but
could
●ot
secure
their
goods
,
which
by
their
incensed
enemies
were
seized
on
and
set
to
sale
.
Several
incursions
were
made
afterward
by
the
English
,
with
such
successe
that
at
last
the
Nobility
(
some
of
whom
were
not
so
sensible
of
the
publick
dishonour
and
detriment
done
to
their
Countrey
,
as
of
the
damage
themselves
suffered
in
their
private
possessions
,
which
could
not
well
be
secured
in
a
common
devastation
)
applied
themselves
more
obsequiously
to
the
Governour
,
uniting
their
strength
,
and
compromising
their
counsels
,
which
helpt
them
to
a
little
victory
,
and
that
after
their
chasticement
invited
some
auxiliaries
from
France
,
commanded
by
Monseiur
Montgomery
de
Lorge
,
who
had
instructions
to
enquire
after
the
disorders
unnecessarily
caused
by
the
Earl
of
Lenox
and
his
party
,
and
to
rebuke
them
as
well
as
cherish
others
who
had
shewed
more
conscience
in
continuing
loyal
,
than
curiosity
in
searching
reasons
and
opportunity
how
or
why
they
might
not
be
so
.
The
countenance
of
these
French
forces
much
hastened
the
Scotch
levies
,
so
that
in
a
short
time
was
raised
an
Army
of
15000.
men
,
with
which
they
marched
to
the
borders
of
England
,
where
in
the
spoil
of
the
Countrey
they
quitted
some
old
scores
,
and
might
have
made
a
farther
inroad
,
if
not
divided
in
their
counsels
;
but
they
returned
home
with
the
reputation
and
booty
they
had
gotten
,
as
soon
after
did
De
Lorge
into
France
.
The
late
successe
against
the
publ●ck
enemy
,
upon
whose
preparation
or
approach
Scotland
was
never
free
from
intestine
tumults
and
disorders
,
gave
the
Governour
and
Cardinal
opportunity
for
a
progresse
and
visitation
through
the
Countrey
,
to
compose
the
ruptures
in
the
Ecclesiastick
and
Civil
body
;
to
encourage
the
hearts
of
such
as
were
any
way
inclinable
to
peace
and
duty
,
and
to
castigate
persons
whom
they
found
refractory
against
the
law
and
establishment
of
the
Kingdom
:
wherein
though
some
of
their
proceedings
may
be
censur'd
for
too
much
rigour
,
yet
somewhat
must
be
indulged
to
humane
infirmity
,
that
not
alwaies
in
Rulers
,
whether
temporal
or
spiritual
,
is
guided
by
the
sweet
influence
of
Christian
charity
,
the
perfection
whereof
is
not
onely
to
pardon
,
but
to
do
good
for
evil
,
at
least
in
judicature
not
to
be
over
ballanced
by
the
sense
of
any
personall
affronts
,
so
as
to
recompence
them
with
revenge
,
and
make
the
sword
of
justice
to
execute
more
by
the
authority
of
their
passion
than
the
Law
.
Beside
,
whatsoever
were
the
abuses
crept
into
Religion
,
when
they
finde
improper
persons
and
uncommission'd
for
that
purpose
,
not
onely
lopping
off
the
superfluous
boughs
,
but
laying
the
Axe
unto
the
root
of
all
,
with
design
to
plant
nothing
of
the
word
of
God
that
they
pretend
to
,
but
wilde
fancies
of
their
own
,
and
not
onely
to
argue
out
works
,
but
fight
up
their
Faith
,
and
claim
by
their
doctrine
a
propriety
in
all
possessions
,
whose
owners
submit
not
to
it
;
what
prevention
is
used
,
especially
by
persons
in
present
government
,
may
in
charity
be
hoped
to
ensue
as
well
from
a
godly
zeal
to
maintain
the
better
part
,
as
a
barbarous
cruelty
and
perversness
to
keep
up
the
worse
,
which
being
all
the
apology
I
intend
for
them
,
passing
my
word
and
promise
,
that
howsoever
prejudiced
I
will
relate
no
circumstance
partially
,
much
lesse
falsely
,
to
the
disadvantage
of
the
Reformers
,
I
will
briefly
instance
the
proceedings
against
such
p●rsons
as
occur
most
notorious
in
their
story
.
Somewhat
before
this
time
,
in
the
year
1540.
one
Sr.
Iohn
Borthwick
,
commonly
called
Captain
Borthwick
,
was
in
the
Cloisters
of
S.
Andrews
before
a
multitude
of
the
principal
Clergy
and
Nobility
process'd
and
condemned
though
absent
and
out
of
reach
The
articles
are
publish'd
,
but
because
too
succinctly
,
and
it
may
be
not
indifferently
;
or
impartially
,
by
his
accusers
and
Judges
;
I
conceive
it
no
injury
to
him
,
to
lay
down
,
for
his
sense
and
the
substance
of
that
he
scattered
before
;
what
I
collect
from
the
answers
himself
framed
afterward
,
and
commended
to
his
friends
.
The
first
Article
was
,
His
levelling
the
Pope
of
Rome
with
any
other
Bishop
or
Prelate
whatsoever
.
Where
,
as
he
might
have
enlarged
h●s
Christian
moderation
to
the
allowance
of
some
precedence
and
priviledges
granted
him
by
the
submission
and
Canons
of
unsuspected
Councils
,
and
given
him
,
for
S.
Peters
sake
a
Patriarc●ate
at
least
:
so
much
more
might
he
have
abstained
from
comparing
the
whole
communion
of
that
Religion
to
common
Thieves
and
Robbers
,
having
the
Pope
for
their
Captain
;
and
b●cause
they
called
him
Holy
Father
(
a
Title
from
Antiquity
rendred
to
the
dignity
not
only
of
that
,
but
other
Sees
)
affixing
to
the
persons
of
all
successively
invested
with
it
the
guilt
of
Treason
,
Murder
,
Rapine
and
all
kind
of
such
evils
.
A
branch
of
the
third
Article
(
for
I
omit
all
wherein
he
is
to
be
commended
for
asserting
the
truth
,
or
not
condemned
for
speaking
modestly
and
prudently
his
own
opinions
)
that
I
say
,
was
concerning
the
lawfulness
for
all
Bishops
to
be
coupled
and
joyned
in
Matrimony
.
In
answer
to
which
,
his
business
was
not
onely
to
exclaim
against
the
practice
of
the
Romane
Church
for
prohibiting
their
Clergy
marriage
,
who
cannot
have
the
confidence
to
deny
that
a
greater
enlargement
was
left
to
them
by
S.
Paul
whose
doctrine
he
chiefly
urgeth
;
and
by
the
Cannons
of
the
Christian
Church
a
long
time
after
,
which
themselves
have
not
expunged
in
their
editions
;
but
rather
ingeniously
to
clear
this
point
and
scruple
.
Whether
Saint
Paul
having
said
;
That
all
things
which
are
lawfull
are
not
convenient
;
whensoever
the
Governours
of
a
Church
finde
inconvenient
what
they
know
lawfull
they
may
not
innocently
lay
a
restraint
upon
that
liberty
,
since
they
force
no
man
unto
the
function
,
but
simply
make
it
a
condition
obliging
any
man
that
will
enter
in
,
who
upon
conscience
of
his
infirmity
,
hath
room
enough
to
bestow
himself
otherwise
in
the
world
.
And
those
who
since
pleade
for
Sir
Iohns
,
are
to
frame
some
distinction
between
that
general
Canon
of
the
Romane
Church
,
and
those
particular
Statutes
or
laws
in
divers
or
all
the
Reformed
,
which
oblige
,
beside
individuals
,
several
Colledges
and
Corporations
of
people
to
an
unmarried
life
,
who
make
a
forfeiture
of
their
preferments
and
profits
,
whensoever
they
enter
into
that
state
.
Secondly
,
Sir
Iohn
citing
the
doctrine
of
S.
Paul
,
was
to
take
notice
of
his
advice
to
all
men
,
to
be
as
he
was
,
which
argued
a
possibility
they
might
be
so
;
much
more
that
out
of
all
men
a
selected
number
might
be
called
to
serve
God
at
his
Holy
Altar
,
with
pure
hands
and
hearts
,
and
after
to
make
up
the
Lambs
speciall
train
which
St.
Iohn
tells
him
were
virgins
not
defiled
with
women
,
redeemed
from
among
men
,
being
the
first
fruits
unto
God
,
and
to
the
Lamb
.
As
to
that
Sr.
Iohn
pretended
,
That
S.
Paul
where
he
described
the
perfect
image
of
a
good
Bishop
,
did
reckon
and
account
marriage
amongst
the
other
good
gifts
which
he
required
to
be
in
them
:
yea
,
that
he
numbred
Matrimony
among
the
principal
vertues
pertaining
unto
a
Bishop
,
it
is
very
ridiculous
,
the
most
thereby
imported
being
a
toleration
to
such
as
cannot
lye
alone
,
or
will
not
trust
a
Steward
with
their
accounts
,
and
unworthy
a
reply
.
In
his
answer
to
the
fourth
,
Calling
the
Pope
Antichrist
,
among
them
which
made
him
Pro-Christ
by
succession
and
Vicar
general
of
the
Church
,
whatsoever
in
the
eyes
of
some
men
,
it
had
of
truth
▪
undeserving
the
imputation
of
Schism
;
it
had
little
of
prudence
,
nor
could
it
produce
lesse
than
a
condemnation
by
those
Judges
,
whose
Religion
and
interest
was
to
keep
up
the
Tradition
of
their
Fathers
.
In
the
fifth
,
preferring
his
particular
faith
before
that
of
the
whole
National
Clergy
,
yet
rendring
no
account
of
it
but
in
the
destructive
part
of
what
he
disliked
:
nor
declaring
of
what
other
communion
he
was
,
primitive
or
modern
,
but
rather
that
he
mean'd
to
be
of
none
by
his
crying
down
material
Temples
and
Chapels
(
wherein
the
Papists
puting
an
Image
or
Crucifix
will
not
excuse
him
)
he
savours
of
too
much
insolence
and
self-conceit
,
sending
every
man
to
a
separate
subsistence
by
himself
▪
for
which
God
in
his
holy
Scripture
gives
no
authority
unto
any
:
beside
that
,
it
dissenteth
from
the
Article
which
the
Apostles
put
in
their
Creed
.
To
the
sixt
Article
about
the
Temporal
Iurisdiction
of
the
Clergy
,
he
might
have
so
far
condescended
as
to
permit
it
where
their
spiritual
function
was
not
interrupted
by
it
;
or
if
it
were
,
where
the
King
supreme
in
spiritual
and
temporal
,
dispenced
with
it
,
their
office
being
supplied
by
others
:
as
likewise
where
the
cases
of
conscience
were
so
involved
with
the
points
of
propriety
,
interest
and
profit
,
that
any
difficulty
arising
required
the
resolution
rather
of
a
Priest
than
Lawyer
,
such
as
which
are
to
be
found
in
Deut.
17.
The
places
he
cites
against
it
implies
onely
a
singular
humility
,
without
ambition
or
vain-glory
,
to
be
enjoyn'd
them
,
and
may
as
well
be
used
against
the
composing
any
differences
,
the
greatest
act
of
Christian
Charity
,
as
judging
Controversies
and
Suits
in
law
.
In
the
seventh
,
about
The
Kings
sequestring
the
revenues
of
the
Church
,
whatsoever
may
be
the
Royall
power
in
reserved
cases
,
to
assume
,
or
transfer
the
whole
from
one
name
to
another
,
as
from
Priests
to
Ministers
(
if
the
name
must
be
so
reformed
)
from
Convents
to
Colledges
;
yet
to
rend
in
pieces
the
wills
and
testaments
of
the
dead
,
and
to
take
their
Legacies
from
a
lazy
Clergy
,
to
throw
them
upon
a
luxurious
Laity
,
hath
not
hitherto
been
so
approved
by
God
in
a
blessing
upon
the
persons
or
posterity
of
them
that
gaped
for
this
holy
morsel
,
but
that
many
instances
have
been
made
of
prodigious
ends
,
taking
away
the
possessors
,
ruining
their
families
,
with
an
insensible
losse
of
such
lands
and
inheritances
as
more
justifiably
descended
on
them
.
What
comparison
Sr.
Iohn
makes
between
the
Priests
of
Baal
,
or
Iezabel
,
and
those
of
Rome
,
sparkles
out
from
the
fervency
of
his
zeal
,
which
too
much
transports
him
when
he
pretends
to
the
same
commission
with
Daniel
and
Elias
.
Upon
the
ninth
,
about
the
power
of
the
Church
in
making
Canons
,
he
●aies
too
much
restraint
or
rather
indeed
nulls
it
in
pretending
it
onely
declarative
of
what
was
made
by
God
for
the
Nation
of
the
Iews
,
or
what
was
published
by
Christ
to
his
Apostles
sent
among
them
and
the
Gentiles
,
whereas
the
abolishing
most
part
of
the
former
,
left
room
for
a
new
Law
to
be
inserted
in
its
place
;
nor
when
Christianity
had
entred
onely
into
private
houses
,
was
it
proper
to
have
so
many
orders
issued
out
,
as
when
it
should
after
spread
it self
openly
throughout
the
world
.
The
authentick
limitation
which
he
fancieth
out
of
23.
Iohn
,
may
give
a
greater
liberty
than
the
Church
of
Room
hath
yet
taken
;
for
granting
him
what
he
may
expect
,
but
calls
not
for
,
that
the
seventh
verse
bringeth
all
intended
within
the
compass
of
the
Morall
Law
;
yet
that
,
as
to
the
practice
both
in
the
first
and
second
Table
,
brancheth
it self
into
several
parts
of
the
positive
,
as
well
sacred
as
judicial
then
proper
for
that
Nation
,
which
since
being
abolished
by
Christ
,
some
Evangelical
constitutions
were
to
succeed
,
whereof
all
the
Texts
in
the
Gospel
against
Traditions
do
not
deprive
the
Church
.
The
conditions
he
annexeth
to
the
Levites
priviledge
,
Malachy
2
▪
reach
not
unto
the
Christian
Priests
,
unlesse
he
can
demonstrate
them
as
compleatly
furnished
out
of
the
4.
Evangelists
,
which
rather
represent
(
and
that
but
very
briefly
,
even
when
they
are
drawn
into
an
harmony
)
the
state
and
discipline
of
the
Church
at
that
time
,
than
make
provisional
Cannons
in
all
cases
,
for
all
Christian
Congregations
in
succeeding
ages
.
As
to
what
power
the
Prophets
had
universally
which
he
saith
,
is
so
very
lively
d●scribed
,
Ezek.
33.
that
they
should
hear
the
word
out
of
Gods
own
mouth
and
declare
it
unto
the
people
.
When
he
can
prevail
with
God
to
speak
viva
voce
,
as
lively
to
Christian
Priests
,
or
but
whisper
to
them
in
dreams
,
or
shew
them
Hieroglyphicks
of
his
pleasure
in
frequent
visions
;
it
may
be
the
Church
of
Rome
will
lay
down
her
necessity
of
calling
Councills
,
and
suspend
the
execution
of
her
Cannons
.
The
summe
of
what
passed
between
Christ
and
his
Apostles
,
as
to
matter
of
faith
,
he
might
believe
to
be
comprehended
in
the
history
of
the
New
Testament
,
whereupon
no
question
the
Apostles
did
more
dilate
in
their
dispertion
than
is
preserved
for
our
reading
,
and
the
like
was
done
by
their
successors
in
the
institution
of
the
Church
.
But
as
to
matters
of
practice
,
considering
how
many
years
Christ
conversed
with
them
,
Sir
Iohn
could
not
but
conceive
many
particulars
unregister'd
,
or
fallen
short
of
his
Age
;
nor
had
they
been
,
if
preserved
,
applicable
to
all
times
,
according
to
the
variety
of
which
,
and
other
circumstances
the
Decretalls
multiplied
,
and
so
will
Ecclesiasticall
Canons
increase
in
number
,
or
be
alterable
for
necessity
or
decency
unto
the
end
.
What
presseth
most
in
the
tenth
Article
,
Sir
Iohn
declineth
,
and
therefore
no
wrong
is
done
him
,
if
he
be
thought
imprudently
to
have
said
,
&c.
That
Religion
(
that
is
to
say
,
so
much
of
it
as
Henry
8.
turn'd
off
)
was
to
be
abolished
and
destroyed
as
then
in
England
,
where
(
whatsoever
good
reformation
hath
since
been
made
)
a
great
deal
of
Murder
,
Rapine
and
Injustice
was
acted
,
and
countenanc'd
,
by
what
King
,
and
to
what
purpose
the
world
knowes
:
And
the
Cardinal
with
his
Clergy
had
good
reason
,
beside
private
interest
▪
to
prevent
so
passionate
and
sacrilegious
a
change
in
Scotland
.
Some
moderation
S●r
Iohn
shews
in
permitting
S.
Augustines
Monks
to
stand
,
for
not
whom
alone
,
but
others
of
ancient
institution
as
much
may
be
pleaded
,
if
S.
Basils
Rule
and
the
historical
passages
of
S.
Hierom
and
other
holy
Fathers
be
duly
read
,
whose
Convents
were
made
no
brothel
houses
nor
swine-sties
,
nor
was
their
worship
such
,
as
to
devote
them
unto
the
devill
,
and
yet
much
reverence
they
gave
unto
the
Reliques
of
Christian
Martyrs
.
They
that
afterward
made
counterfeits
,
for
gain
of
proselytes
or
money
,
may
the
better
sort
dispute
the
point
of
pi●
fraus
with
his
Knightship
and
the
worse
with
his
hypocriticall
corrupted
Sectaries
,
who
pretend
to
as
great
miracles
,
in
having
Gods
Spirit
at
their
call
,
and
the
power
of
all
his
Ancient
Prophets
in
their
Night-caps
.
The
habits
of
Monk●
(
which
he
excepts
against
)
were
in
the
purest
times
impos'd
upon
them
,
and
fitter
it
may
be
were
they
for
a
Cloyster
,
than
those
by
which
the
tribe
of
precisians
will
since
be
distinguished
in
the
Chu●ch
.
Yet
am
I
not
so
angry
with
Sr.
Iohn
Borthwick
for
his
separate
singularity
in
opinion
as
to
justifie
the
sentence
pass'd
upon
him
to
be
executed
in
effigie
,
while
absent
and
in
person
,
when
he
could
be
chatched
,
my
portion
being
not
with
them
that
condemn
Hereticks
to
fi●e
and
faggot
;
but
if
he
did
(
as
commonly
such
unquiet
spirits
do
)
under
the
pretence
of
conversion
,
instigate
the
people
against
the
government
of
that
Kingdome
,
because
not
of
his
Religion
,
I
referre
him
to
the
La●
,
and
should
no
otherwise
have
wisht
his
pardon
than
upon
a
serious
acknowledgement
of
his
fault
.
What
fol●ows
in
Fox's
Acts
,
of
a
conference
between
the
Bishop
of
Dunkelden
and
Dean
Thomas
,
a
Canon
of
St.
Colmes
Inch
,
I
cannot
judge
of
finding
little
or
nothing
about
it
in
their
own
Historians
;
nor
can
I
credit
one
particular
of
the
Bishops
stout
saying
,
I
thank
God
I
never
knew
what
the
Old
and
New
Testament
was
,
howsoever
rise
the
Proverb
which
he
pretends
to
be
so
common
in
Scotland
,
Ye
are
like
the
Bishop
of
Dunkelden
,
that
knew
neither
New
nor
Old
Law
no
more
than
the
like
in
Buchanan
,
That
upon
a
strict
enquiry
at
Dundee
after
the
Readers
of
the
New
Testament
most
of
the
Priests
,
who
sure
were
licensed
,
profest
so
much
ignorance
of
the
Book
,
as
they
contentiously
averr'd
it
to
be
written
by
Martin
Luther
,
thereupon
rerejected
it
and
required
the
Old.
And
somewhat
to
be
suspected
is
that
which
comes
after
:
That
the
Dean
with
six
other
Friars
and
a
Gentleman
were
burn'd
principally
upon
these
articles
,
of
the
Deans
preaching
every
Sunday
on
the
Epistles
and
Gospels
,
and
their
eating
of
flesh
in
Lent
,
for
which
more
moderate
penance
to
my
knowledge
is
inflicted
in
other
Catholick
Countryes
at
this
day
,
and
that
ancient
Canon
is
not
wantonly
abused
upon
reasonable
causes
dispensations
,
without
any
great
difficulty
are
obtained
.
And
therefore
another
story
of
like
nature
,
countenanc'd
by
Buchanan
,
and
most
passionately
laid
forth
by
Knox
,
of
four
hanged
in
St.
Ionhstons
for
eating
one
poor
Goose
on
a
Friday
(
which
could
not
afford
each
of
them
a
leg
and
a
wing
)
hath
little
of
my
belief
,
and
indeed
the
lesse
because
I
find
them
conceal
what
Fox
,
out
of
no
meaning
I
ghess
,
to
deal
more
impartially
,
inserteth
,
Their
hanging
up
the
Image
of
St.
Francis
,
nailing
Rams
horns
to
his
head
▪
and
a
Cows
rump
to
his
tail
:
and
some
of
them
interrupting
Friar
Spense
in
his
Sermon
,
maintaining
the
established
doctrine
of
those
times
,
the
necessity
of
prayer
to
Saints
,
whereupon
followed
such
a
tumult
of
the
people
,
as
hazarded
his
life
,
which
murder
would
have
been
more
unjustifiable
before
God
and
man
,
than
the
hanging
up
four
or
four
hundred
of
them
for
attempting
that
on
the
person
of
one
,
which
might
and
did
draw
after
it
the
destruction
of
many
,
not
in
halters
upon
a
legal
sentence
,
but
by
the
sword
rebelliously
imployed
,
as
well
aga●nst
their
Prince
as
their
fellow
subjects
,
which
will
appear
too
evidently
in
the
sequel
of
this
story
.
I
shall
not
follow
every
little
Martyr
to
the
st●ke
▪
●et
not
any
of
them
is
there
but
I
sh●uld
heartily
commisera●e
if
I
were
as
we
I
pers●aded
,
as
some
Historians
seem
to
be
,
that
he
suffered
clearly
for
the
tender●ess
of
his
consci●nce
,
or
by
the
merciless
cruelty
of
his
m●licious
Judges
.
But
when
I
discover
in
most
the●r
pr●a●hing
,
praying
,
disc●ursi●g
,
designing
,
c●unselling
,
such
a
●●irit
of
virulency
aga●nst
their
Romane
Adversaries
,
which
must
●e
censur'd
incompetible
with
that
Christian
charity
which
the
best
patte●ns
,
the
most
exemplary
sufferers
in
the
primitive
times
dec●●red
,
principally
at
their
death
;
when
very
few
of
them
can
be
so
justified
in
their
strictness
of
Religion
,
as
they
are
most
evidently
to
be
condemned
for
sedition
;
whatsoever
indirect
proceedings
may
be
observed
in
their
tryalls
;
whatsoever
accumulative
articles
were
by
mistake
or
wilfull
injury
,
cast
upon
them
;
I
cannot
so
commend
them
for
their
vertues
,
as
to
flatter
posterity
by
the
example
into
their
errours
.
Therefore
passing
by
a
multitude
of
petty
Saints
▪
whom
Knox
and
Buchanan
canonize
as
they
go
,
some
of
whom
may
be
feared
to
deserve
no
other
red
letters
in
the
Calender
than
themselves
,
whose
names
are
deeply
dyed
in
the
bloud
,
which
is
not
little
,
shed
upon
the
rebellious
practices
they
prescribed
:
I
will
discuss
onely
the
passages
about
one
more
signal
than
the
rest
,
out
of
whose
ashes
the
Scotish
Reformation
was
raked
,
and
beside
the
murder
of
the
Cardinal
,
a
consequent
rebellion
advanced
chiefly
upon
the
reputation
of
his
name
,
though
I
will
not
alledge
it
as
apparently
founded
in
his
doctrine
.
The
man
I
mean
is
Mr.
George
Wisheart
of
B●nnets
Colledge
in
Cambridge
where
he
is
famed
to
have
lived
a
very
studious
and
religious
life
,
yet
not
without
some
such
singular
eccentrick
motions
from
the
custome
of
other
honest
men
in
his
time
,
as
gave
some
part
of
his
piety
the
character
of
Melancholy
,
and
the
impress
of
cruelty
to
some
,
severity
in
his
discipline
.
An
instance
of
the
former
in
his
Wearing
and
sleeping
in
Canvas
,
which
his
sheets
and
shir●s
,
freez-mantle
and
other
habits
weekly
,
or
monthly
,
or
quarterly
,
as
his
fancy
serv'd
he
bestowed
upon
the
poor
.
His
having
a
tub
of
water
nightly
by
his
bed-side
,
wherein
he
by
moon-shine
bath'd
himself
,
to
allay
some
heat
that
troubled
him
in
his
rest
.
And
by
the
latter
he
so
exasperated
the
young
spirits
of
his
pupills
,
that
the
desperate
part
of
them
complotted
his
murder
to
obtain
their
deliverance
;
his
apprehension
whereof
might
be
the
reason
that
brought
him
back
into
his
Country
with
the
Scotish
treaters
that
came
from
England
,
who
when
they
had
him
at
home
magnified
him
for
a
Prophet
,
and
sent
him
up
&
down
under
colour
of
Religion
to
draw
the
people
to
their
party
.
What
Town
soever
rejected
h●m
he
denounced
against
it
fire
and
sword
by
the
spirit
,
which
judgement
they
prepared
as
Gods
instruments
to
fulfill
.
He
began
at
Montrosse
,
and
thence
passed
to
Dundee
,
where
an
inhibition
was
given
him
in
the
Queen
and
Governours
name
,
and
they
that
brought
it
were
told
by
him
that
they
chaced
from
them
the
messenger
of
God
.
The
Lord
Marshall
and
other
Noble
men
,
whose
part
he
acted
,
would
have
maintained
him
in
the
place
,
or
have
taken
him
along
with
them
,
but
some
other
spirit
di●ected
him
to
the
Westland
where
the
Bishop
of
Glascow
was
fain
to
raise
a
great
party
to
dispute
with
Mr.
George's
disciples
for
the
Church
,
which
the
Earl
of
Glencarne
and
dive●s
Gentlemen
of
Kyle
would
have
made
good
for
him
,
but
that
he
thought
it
as
good
mustering
his
men
at
the
Market-Crosse
,
as
he
did
otherwhile
about
a
Mole-hill
,
or
some
other
little
piece
of
rising
ground
in
the
fields
.
This
itenerant
Doctor
thus
travelled
from
place
to
place
,
and
wheresoever
he
lodged
thither
the
devoted
Gentry
of
that
quarter
address'd
themselves
,
with
their
armed
Vassals
and
Tenants
to
receive
Orders
rather
for
the
managing
the
great
design
,
than
instructions
for
the
amendment
of
their
lives
.
If
any
were
so
addicted
to
their
old
Religion
or
alleageance
,
or
so
disposed
to
their
quiet
,
that
they
made
no
appearance
worthy
Mr.
Georges
preaching
or
presence
,
he
would
run
from
his
Tet
into
an
invective
for
an
hour
or
two
,
still
brandishing
his
threats
of
fire
and
sword
,
as
at
Haddington
,
because
he
could
not
take
from
his
pulpit
an
account
of
an
hundred
auditors
in
the
Church
;
after
which
vehemency
so
dejected
in
spirit
,
having
it
may
be
,
some
other
intimations
of
his
being
at
the
end
of
his
prophetick
race
,
that
the
last
part
of
his
speech
was
like
a
testament
at
departure
,
and
his
good-night
a
taking
leave
for
ever
of
his
acquaintance
:
which
howsoever
he
meant
it
proved
proper
enough
,
being
seized
on
before
morning
at
Ormeston
,
by
order
from
the
Governour
with
the
Cardinals
advice
,
as
a
person
dangerous
,
for
his
sowing
the
tares
of
sedition
among
the
seed
of
his
new
Evangel
.
The
Earl
Bothwel
with
a
guard
of
House
was
imployed
in
surprising
him
,
or
else
he
had
not
been
taken
,
nor
was
he
without
some
resistance
and
articling
with
the
Earl
,
having
some
armed
Proselytes
in
the
house
,
who
observe
no
orders
,
obey
no
commands
but
when
they
cannot
help
it
,
who
would
not
have
surrendred
him
,
but
that
they
saw
themselves
over-power'd
.
What
promise
(
if
any
)
the
Earl
Bothwell
had
passed
for
his
protection
,
was
not
judged
so
obligatory
,
as
his
alleageance
to
deliver
him
up
to
justice
,
which
he
did
after
some
better
satisfaction
,
than
what
Knox
most
ambiguously
and
maliciously
instanceth
,
the
Cardinals
gold
,
or
the
Queens
undertaking
to
favour
him
in
all
lawfull
suits
to
women
:
Edenburgh
was
not
thought
so
fit
a
place
for
his
imprisonment
as
the
Castle
of
St.
Andrews
,
whither
he
was
shortly
sent
,
and
soon
after
brought
unto
his
tryall
,
although
the
bold
opportunity
of
one
David
Hamilton
,
the
speaker
for
him
and
his
partisans
,
by
a
mixture
of
advice
,
intreaty
,
terrour
,
had
wrought
the
Governour
into
some
uncertainty
of
allowing
the
proceedings
.
About
the
end
of
February
1546.
the
Iudges
Ecclesiastical
and
Civill
sitting
in
the
Abbey
Church
,
Mr.
Wisheart
was
sent
for
to
answer
divers
articles
alledg'd
against
him
,
who
going
into
a
Pulpit
,
according
to
the
custome
of
that
place
(
after
one
Father
Lawder
a
Priest
,
who
was
to
manage
the
accusation
,
had
read
the
articles
against
him
)
began
an
Oration
,
making
entrance
and
advancing
what
he
could
into
the
mindes
of
his
Auditors
,
under
the
glorious
canopy
of
the
Word
of
God
,
which
onely
,
and
that
purely
and
sincerely
he
pretended
to
have
taught
,
and
nothing
in
the
mother-tongue
beside
the
ten
Commandements
,
the
twelve
Articles
of
the
Faith
,
and
Prayer
of
the
Lord
,
and
at
Dundee
the
Epistle
of
St.
Paul
to
the
Romans
,
where
I
do
not
find
he
insisted
long
upon
the
13.
Chap.
at
least
in
the
sense
the
holy
Apostle
intended
it
,
though
I
censure
him
not
to
have
deserved
the
unhandsome
titles
put
upon
him
by
Lawder
at
the
beginning
of
every
Article
;
Thou
false
Heretick
,
Runnagate
,
Traitor
and
Thief
,
&c.
which
is
not
a
form
prescribed
against
any
person
brought
before
that
justice
,
added
little
force
to
the
sequell
of
his
accusation
,
part
of
which
as
to
the
substance
,
he
might
Christianly
and
honourably
have
acknowledged
,
I
mean
that
wherein
the
latter
Tenents
of
the
Roman-Church
superinduced
to
that
purity
her
great
Apostles
planted
in
her
,
carry
more
weight
in
the
ear
,
than
the
genuine
stalk
is
able
to
support
.
But
where
the
accusation
was
justly
laid
in
behalf
of
the
Government
under
which
he
l●v●d
,
or
the
Authority
of
the
Church
delivered
to
her
by
Christ
and
his
Apostles
and
their
incorrup●ed
Successors
,
I
must
elevate
Mr.
Georges
answers
,
and
leave
the
rest
to
the
restriction
or
relaxation
of
mens
●i●●vate
opinions
in
the
world
.
To
the
first
,
which
chargeth
him
with
preaching
at
Dundee
,
after
the
Governour
had
commanded
him
to
desist
,
and
again
after
the
Bishop
of
Brechen
had
excommunicated
for
cont●macy
of
that
kinde
;
he
in
v●in
claims
the
liberty
taken
and
given
,
but
not
in
that
latitude
by
the
Apostle
in
the
Acts
,
We
shall
rather
obey
God
than
men
,
which
qualifies
not
every
man
with
a
mission
that
pretends
to
it
of
his
own
head
;
nor
with
a
remission
of
his
passive
obedience
to
higher
powers
;
else
every
bold
Heretick
,
rightly
so
called
,
may
assume
as
much
.
Nor
can
he
wrest
that
of
the
Prophet
Malachy
,
I
shall
curse
your
blessings
,
and
blesse
your
cursings
,
saith
the
Lord
,
against
the
after
Excommunication
in
the
Christian
Church
,
which
duly
regulated
,
the
Romanes
may
challenge
and
justifie
to
be
valid
in
fit
cases
.
Nor
as
to
the
ninth
Article
will
St.
Iohn
and
St.
Peter
countenance
him
in
laying
hands
of
Ordination
upon
himself
,
when
the
one
saith
,
He
hath
made
us
Kings
&
Priests
,
&
the
other
,
He
hath
made
us
a
Kingly
Priesthood
,
any
more
than
they
will
another
man
in
setting
the
Diadem
on
his
head
which
he
thinks
fitter
for
it
than
the
Kings
;
or
taking
that
Scepter
into
his
hand
,
which
he
supposeth
an
infirm
Potentate
cannot
hold
.
For
the
eleventh
Article
,
about
the
lawfulness
of
eating
flesh
on
Fryday
aswell
as
Sunday
,
As
to
the
purity
of
dayes
(
which
bears
proportion
to
the
Passion
and
Resurrection
)
or
indifferency
of
meat●
,
abstracting
from
all
Superiours
rational
commands
,
and
in
pious
people
an
humble
commemoration
of
Christs
suffering
,
by
their
suffering
somewhat
weekly
at
that
time
,
St.
Paul
may
justifie
him
in
his
answer
(
though
they
were
other
dayes
he
meant
)
but
yet
▪
by
his
favour
,
not
in
reversing
the
Statutes
or
Canons
composed
in
piety
and
prudence
,
w●ich
encounter
no
principles
of
Religion
,
nor
deny
fit
supplies
to
the
necessity
of
nature
,
or
moderate
desires
of
a
regular
appetite
in
due
season
.
But
that
which
betrayed
his
ignorance
extreamly
,
or
an
insolent
arrogance
of
singular
extraordinary
indowments
from
God
for
the
interpretation
of
his
Word
;
or
where
that
in
practicals
and
circumstantials
is
silent
,
for
the
intelligence
of
his
pleasure
;
was
his
answer
to
the
15.
Article
which
charged
him
with
denying
to
obey
Provincial
or
General
Councils
,
whereof
he
owned
no
knowledge
,
as
if
the
History
of
Gods
Church
in
the
purest
times
of
Christianity
had
not
been
worth
his
search
,
nor
the
exemplary
endeavours
of
the
ancient
Doctors
and
Fathers
,
who
confounded
heathen
and
hereticks
by
their
writings
;
with
joyn'd
hands
rais'd
an
edifice
of
Religion
,
according
to
the
most
exact
model
they
,
at
so
near
a
distance
traditionally
received
from
Christ
and
his
Apostles
;
deserv'd
his
review
,
nor
what
they
sealed
with
their
bloud
,
so
much
of
his
reverence
as
to
consider
,
wether
so
many
did
,
and
himself
but
one
could
not
,
erre
,
especially
when
the
very
Bible
,
to
which
he
appealed
for
the
authority
of
his
doctrine
,
had
been
for
its
own
integrity
and
incorruption
of
words
and
points
,
and
consequently
of
sense
(
whether
their
glosses
and
commentaries
be
admitted
or
no
)
and
could
be
commended
to
him
by
no
more
powerful
testimony
than
their
Canons
,
neglected
and
scorned
by
him
,
for
the
introduction
of
what
Knox
&
he
,
a
prety
pair
to
be
paralled
with
representative
Christianity
in
the
majestick
Sessions
of
Emperours
and
Bishops
▪
had
for
seditious
ends
concluded
in
a
corner
.
Whether
his
singularity
in
these
or
any
other
exorbitant
opinions
,
proceeded
from
passion
or
perswasion
I
shall
not
determine
;
nor
can
I
clear
his
Judges
in
their
sentence
of
condemnation
unto
death
,
unless
his
sedition
were
so
manifest
&
dangerous
(
which
it
might
be
)
that
no
security
could
be
given
for
the
publick
peace
,
but
by
his
removal
.
The
manner
of
it
as
it
lies
in
the
vulgar
story
,
was
with
more
pomp
and
curiosity
than
became
the
gravity
or
charity
very
requisite
in
Cardinals
,
Bishops
,
or
inferiour
Clergy
;
Mr.
Georges
behaviour
near
the
time
of
his
execution
such
,
in
many
particulars
,
as
became
an
humble
,
pious
and
couragious
Christian
,
as
appears
by
divers
prayers
and
discourses
;
yet
his
popularity
,
and
debasing
Prelacy
,
had
not
quitted
him
the
very
day
he
was
to
suffer
,
when
he
beseeched
the
brethren
and
sisters
,
those
Epi●oen
Priests
of
his
making
,
to
exhort
their
Prelates
to
the
learning
of
the
Word
of
God
,
&c.
To
tell
them
,
That
if
they
would
not
convert
themselves
from
their
wick●d
errour
,
there
should
hastily
come
upon
them
the
wrath
of
God
,
which
they
should
not
eschew
;
very
Prophetick
,
and
positive
,
and
prevalent
no
question
,
from
such
mechanick
mouths
.
And
though
he
forgave
the
Hangman
,
when
about
to
do
his
office
,
yet
he
had
not
so
much
chari●y
for
the
Cardinal
,
against
whom
this
angry
Martyr
denounceth
the
sentence
of
a
violent
death
,
revealed
to
him
,
more
likely
by
Iohn
Lesly
,
Melvin
,
and
Carmichel
(
if
it
were
not
the
overflowing
of
his
own
bloudy
heart
concurring
in
the
design
)
whose
hands
were
to
act
it
,
than
by
any
Oracle
from
heaven
,
where
no
such
murders
are
forged
,
his
last
words
being
these
,
as
his
own
Friend
hath
recorded
them
:
He
who
in
such
state
from
that
high
place
feedeth
his
eyes
with
my
torments
,
within
few
dayes
shal
be
hanged
out
at
the
same
window
,
to
be
seen
with
as
much
ign●miny
,
as
he
row
there
leaneth
in
pride
.
The
credit
of
the
new
gospel
had
been
crackt
,
if
the
prediction
of
this
great
prophet
had
not
been
hastily
accomplished
,
which
his
principal
disciples
took
presently
into
their
care
,
whose
stomacks
were
so
full
of
indignation
against
the
Cardinal
,
that
their
meat
could
not
down
before
they
had
declared
it
at
their
tables
,
That
the
bloud
of
Mr.
George
should
be
revenged
,
or
else
it
should
cost
life
for
life
.
The
most
proper
instruments
for
such
a
purpose
must
be
men
of
metal
,
whose
spirits
being
exasperated
by
a
sympathy
with
their
late
deceased
Friend
,
or
a
passive
sense
of
some
late
injury
apprehended
from
their
great
enemy
,
that
lived
against
as
many
of
their
wishes
as
there
accrued
minuts
unto
his
time
,
were
predisposed
to
any
desperate
attempt
.
Three
or
four
such
were
pitched
upon
to
surprise
Babilon
(
so
they
call'd
the
Castle
of
the
Cardinal
of
St.
Andrews
)
upon
whom
they
speedily
executed
the
work
't
is
their
own
language
,
that
is
,
they
wickly
murdered
him
in
his
Chamber
.
In
which
act
Iohn
Lesly
and
Peter
Carmichael
being
too
hasty
,
they
were
rebuked
by
Iames
Melvin
the
more
sedate
Reformer
of
the
three
,
and
told
,
This
work
and
judgement
of
God
ought
to
be
done
with
greater
gravity
.
He
presents
to
him
the
point
of
the
sword
,
saies
,
Repent
thee
of
thy
former
wicked
life
,
that
is
,
stopping
the
godly
brethren
in
their
course
,
strikes
him
twice
or
thrice
through
with
a
stog
sword
,
and
so
he
fell
.
All
honest
Christians
were
astonished
at
so
horrid
and
execrable
an
act
,
but
the
meek
disciplinarians
did
not
onely
,
saith
Buchanan
,
approve
it
,
but
came
to
gratulate
these
authors
of
their
publick
liberty
,
others
ventured
life
and
fortunes
with
them
for
the
future
;
libertatis
authores
,
so
it
should
seem
the
Cardinal
had
tied
up
their
hands
,
till
this
stog
sword
cut
the
knot
and
set
them
at
liberty
to
do
mischief
uncontrouled
afterward
.
Iohn
Knox
is
so
tickled
with
the
business
that
he
becomes
very
witty
,
and
because
he
would
not
lose
his
jest
,
tells
his
Reader
expresly
,
he
writes
merrily
about
it
:
but
by
this
time
he
knows
(
if
he
chang'd
not
his
mind
)
that
the
end
of
that
mirth
is
heavinesse
,
I
believe
.
That
his
heart
and
he
might
not
keep
at
distance
,
the
Easter
following
he
goes
to
live
with
the
murderers
in
the
Castle
,
and
not
long
after
from
the
cry
of
this
bloud
takes
his
call
to
the
ministry
,
which
was
the
greatest
vengeance
that
ever
God
sent
to
that
Kingdome
.
For
this
first
thriving
plant
of
the
discipline
being
set
by
the
sword
and
cherished
by
*
license
and
lust
,
the
soil
prepared
by
the
Cardinals
bloud
,
grew
up
on
a
sudden
to
branch
it
over
all
Civill
Magistrates
and
Laws
,
and
in
short
space
over-topt
Royal
Authority
it self
,
some
comfortable
assurance
whereof
he
gave
to
the
brethren
in
his
first
Sermon
upon
Dan.
7.24
,
&c.
And
another
King
shall
rise
after
them
,
and
he
shall
be
unlike
unto
the
first
,
and
he
shall
subdue
three
Kings
,
and
shall
speak
words
against
the
most
High
,
and
think
that
he
can
change
times
and
laws
;
And
they
shall
be
given
unto
his
hands
until
a
time
and
times
,
and
dividing
of
times
.
But
the
judgement
shall
sit
,
and
they
sh●ll
take
away
his
dominion
,
to
consume
and
to
destroy
it
unto
the
end
.
So
great
a
Scholar
might
easily
prove
that
the
Prophet
Daniel
spake
this
directly
of
the
Scots
,
which
the
Laird
of
Nydrie
,
a
man
fervent
,
so
●arre
I
believe
him
,
not
when
he
addes
,
and
upright
in
religion
,
so
well
understood
,
that
he
told
some
body
(
you
may
ghesse
whom
he
meant
)
We
would
counsel
you
and
them
to
provide
better
defence
than
fire
and
sword
,
for
it
may
be
that
else
you
may
be
disappointed
:
Men
now
have
no
other
eyes
than
they
had
then
.
A
multitude
of
disciples
by
such
good
doctrine
had
Knox
drawn
to
him
at
St.
Andrews
;
The
Bishops
complain
to
the
Queen
and
Councill
,
they
are
willed
to
be
quiet
and
promis'd
remedy
ere
long
.
The
Reformers
with
all
might
and
main
endeavour
to
prevent
the
marriage
of
the
young
Princesse
with
the
Dolphin
of
France
,
being
yet
too
weak
,
they
rail
at
the
Parliament
that
made
it
,
account
it
a
matter
of
sale
in
the
Governour
,
and
prophesie
she
shall
become
a
plague
and
punishment
to
Gods
people
.
At
length
the
rest
of
those
uncleanly
birds
of
Babilon
(
now
truly
call'd
so
)
the
Cast●e
of
St.
Andrews
,
was
thrown
out
,
care
▪
being
taken
that
Iohn
Knox
should
be
cag'd
and
carried
away
with
them
for
France
.
Here
the
Gospel
was
at
a
stand
for
some
time
,
till
Iohn
flutter'd
homeward
so
near
out
of
danger
as
he
could
;
lighted
first
at
Barwick
,
thence
flew
to
Newcastle
:
There
was
no
chirping
yet
for
him
in
Scotland
:
He
takes
a
new
flight
to
L●nd●n
,
where
having
muted
as
much
mischief
as
he
could
upon
the
death
of
King
Edward
the
sixt
,
he
passeth
to
Geneva
,
staies
there
till
he
had
a
new
call
by
the
Congregation
assembled
at
Frankford
,
where
he
found
not
all
birds
of
his
feather
,
yet
sets
up
his
tune
to
as
high
a
note
of
treason
as
he
could
,
and
in
an
Admonition
to
England
calling
the
Emperour
little
inferiour
to
Nero
,
and
the
Queen
more
cruel
than
Iezabel
,
being
accused
he
gets
away
in
the
dark
,
shrouds
himself
for
a
while
under
the
wings
of
Geneva
,
thence
to
Deep
,
and
thereafter
to
Scotland
,
where
in
the
interim
had
been
several
alterations
of
State
,
though
little
as
yet
in
religion
;
The
Queen
Dowager
being
in
the
year
1554.
made
Regent
(
much
importunity
or
rather
a
visible
necessity
constraining
the
Governour
to
resign
)
had
the
Crown
put
upon
her
head
,
as
seemly
a
sight
saith
Iohn
Knox
in
the
new
Gospel
language
as
to
put
the
saddle
upon
the
back
of
an
unruly
sow
.
At
this
change
the
brethren
creep
in
,
first
Harlow
a
simple
and
weak
man
,
then
Willock
under
the
cover
of
some
Commissions
from
the
Dutchesse
of
Embden
,
and
at
last
to
beat
down
the
idol
Masse
,
comes
Iohn
Knox
with
his
hammer
.
At
first
he
falls
to
work
in
the
night
with
the
Earl
of
Glencarne
,
Earl
of
Marschel
and
Henry
Drummond
,
whom
he
forms
into
so
good
a
conceit
of
a
godly
exhortation
he
made
,
that
they
are
earnest
with
him
to
send
a
Letter
to
the
Queen
Regent
that
might
move
her
to
hear
the
word
of
God
.
I
shall
not
recite
all
the
arguments
and
good
language
he
used
to
that
purpose
,
by
some
few
passages
expressed
may
the
Reader
be
able
to
judge
of
the
rest
.
Vnlesse
in
your
regiment
and
in
using
of
power
your
Majesty
be
found
different
from
the
multitude
of
Princes
and
head
Rulers
,
this
preheminence
wherein
ye
are
placed
shall
be
your
dejection
to
torment
and
pain
everlasting
,
(
that
is
in
plain
English
,
Except
she
gives
way
to
the
discipline
she
shall
be
damned
.
)
An
Orator
and
Gods
Messenger
might
justly
require
of
you
now
(
by
Gods
hand
promoted
to
high
dignity
)
a
motherly
pitty
upon
your
Subjects
,
a
justice
inflexible
to
be
used
against
murderers
and
common
Oppressors
;
a
heart
void
of
avarice
and
partiality
;
a
minde
studious
and
careful
for
maintenance
of
that
Realm
and
Common-wealth
(
above
whom
God
hath
placed
you
)
and
by
it
hath
made
you
honourable
,
with
the
rest
of
vertues
,
which
not
onely
Gods
Scriptures
,
but
also
writers
(
illuminated
onely
with
the
light
of
nature
)
require
in
Gods
Rulers
.
But
vain
it
is
to
crave
reformation
of
manners
,
where
Religion
is
corrupted
.
So
that
the
Queen
being
not
reformed
is
a
merciless
mother
,
an
unjust
countenancer
of
murderers
,
&c.
a
covetous
and
most
partial
creature
,
a
negligent
or
wilfully
destructive
Governesse
,
void
of
all
vertue
required
,
and
,
being
desperately
vitious
,
unfit
to
Govern
.
—
Except
ye
speedily
repent
,
ye
and
your
posterity
shall
suddenly
feel
the
dispersing
hand
of
him
who
hath
exalted
you
,
ye
shall
be
compelled
will
ye
or
not
,
to
know
that
he
is
eternal
against
whom
ye
addresse
the
battell
,
and
that
it
is
he
that
moderateth
the
times
,
and
disposeth
kingdomes
,
ejecting
from
authority
such
as
be
inobedient
,
and
placing
others
according
to
his
good
pleasure
;
that
is
,
Iohn
Knox
and
his
complices
shall
depose
you
,
as
it
proved
.
But
here
Iohn
over-reached
,
and
laid
himself
with
his
gospel
flat
upon
the
ground
,
whence
he
had
been
taken
up
with
a
witness
,
if
he
had
not
scrambled
away
again
to
Geneva
,
after
which
escape
he
was
burn'd
in
effigie
at
Edenburgh
Crosse
.
Yet
like
to
two
buckets
,
of
which
one
,
to
be
sure
is
up
,
if
the
other
be
down
,
Iohn
Willock
returns
the
second
time
from
Embden
,
who
preaches
the
Nobility
into
secret
Conventions
and
close
counsels
,
which
brake
out
into
Sedition
at
Edenburgh
,
where
by
a
zealous
brother
,
Iames
Chalmers
of
Geitgyrth
the
Queen
was
personally
affronted
,
Churches
pillaged
and
in
part
demolished
,
for
which
the
Brethren
assemble
,
(
in
what
manner
ye
may
judge
,
for
all
their
singing
Psalms
and
praying
)
So
that
(
see
the
power
of
their
Notes
)
the
proudest
of
their
enemies
were
,
they
tell
us
,
astonished
.
In
the
mean
time
they
have
their
mountebanks
that
dispatch
by
poyson
most
of
the
Nobility
and
Bishops
that
went
to
the
young
Queens
marriage
in
France
,
because
there
were
murders
enough
otherwise
to
be
done
at
home
,
that
which
might
be
more
religiously
wrought
,
Iohn
Knox
is
sent
for
back
from
Geneva
by
Glencarne
,
Lorne
,
&c.
advises
the
rest
to
work
their
deliverance
from
the
Aegyptian
bondage
upon
what
hazard
soever
,
or
by
whatsoever
opposition
,
be
it
against
Kings
,
or
Emperours
.
Hereupon
the
first
Covenant
is
entered
into
by
the
new
nam'd
Lords
,
&c.
of
the
Congregation
,
and
soon
after
is
made
the
first
Oration
and
Petition
of
the
Protestants
of
Scotland
to
the
Queen
Regent
,
wherein
they
style
themseves
,
a
part
of
that
power
which
God
had
established
in
that
Realm
to
defend
their
brethren
from
cruel
murderers
;
propound
a
Reformation
to
be
made
,
such
as
they
think
fit
to
prescribe
,
and
seem
at
that
time
content
(
which
those
of
their
race
since
disavow
)
That
not
onely
the
rules
and
precepts
of
the
New
Testament
,
but
also
the
writings
of
the
Ancient
Fathers
,
and
the
godly
and
approved
Laws
of
Iustinian
the
Emperour
might
decide
the
controversie
betwixt
them
.
To
this
Petition
they
received
a
gracious
answer
from
the
Queen
,
liberty
of
conscience
restrained
in
nothing
but
from
publick
Assemblies
in
Edenburgh
and
Leith
:
For
which
Her
Majesty
had
in
return
the
dutifull
character
of
crafty
,
dissimulate
and
false
thinking
woman
,
that
made
her
profit
of
both
parties
.
Hath
a
querulous
Letter
directed
to
her
,
and
the
Parliament
against
her
Clergy
,
whom
they
reproachfully
call
,
Place-holders
of
the
Ministers
of
the
Church
;
with
a
protestation
limiting
the
Supream
power
in
deputing
Judges
for
Civil
affairs
,
and
menacing
,
That
if
any
tumult
or
uproar
should
arise
among
the
members
of
the
Realm
,
for
the
diversity
of
Religion
,
&
if
it
shall
chance
(
as
they
intended
it
should
not
,
having
certainly
determined
)
that
abuses
be
violently
reformed
,
that
the
crime
thereof
be
not
imputed
to
them
,
who
most
humbly
do
now
seek
all
to
be
reformed
by
an
order
.
The
Earl
Glencarne
,
&c.
second
this
in
a
private
addresse
,
and
forewarn
the
Queen
of
the
inconveniences
that
were
to
follow
.
To
prevent
which
,
and
give
what
satisfaction
could
be
reasonably
desir'd
,
she
summons
all
their
Preachers
to
Sterling
,
and
they
according
to
their
never-failing
accustomed
manner
,
all
the
puritane
Gentry
,
&c.
to
accompany
them
,
and
this
they
call'd
,
The
peoples
giving
confession
with
their
Preachers
.
Iohn
Knox
casually
arriving
at
the
same
time
repairs
to
Dundee
,
and
craves
leave
(
which
was
not
difficult
to
be
obtained
)
to
accompany
the
Brethren
,
and
give
confession
of
his
Faith
with
them
,
who
instead
of
appearing
before
the
Queen
,
according
to
the
grace
of
God
granted
to
him
(
they
are
his
own
words
)
carries
them
to
St.
Iohnston
,
and
so
exhorts
them
,
that
they
there
fall
to
the
pillage
of
the
Monasteries
,
destroying
the
Charter-house
,
wherein
was
the
Tombe
of
King
Iames
the
first
,
whereat
the
Queen
taking
just
indignation
,
and
complaining
to
her
Nobi●ity
about
it
,
the
Brethren
send
Her
Majesty
a
smart
Letter
,
beginning
meekly
with
As
heretofore
with
jeopard
of
our
lives
,
and
yet
with
willing
hearts
,
we
have
served
the
Authority
of
Scotland
,
and
your
Majesty
now
Regent
in
this
Realm
—
but
soon
after
tell
her
,
They
shall
be
compelled
to
take
the
sword
of
just
defence
against
all
that
shall
pursue
them
for
the
matter
of
Religion
and
their
conscience
sake
,
which
ought
not
,
nor
may
not
be
subject
to
mortal
creatures
(
the
Queen
Regent
was
a
mortal
creature
,
Ergo
)
further
than
by
Gods
word
man
is
able
to
prove
that
he
hath
power
to
command
them
(
that
is
further
than
they
have
a
mind
to
be
commanded
)
Upon
the
Queens
approach
they
send
for
more
auxiliaries
to
St.
Iohnston
.
To
some
Noblemen
that
declin'd
them
,
or
had
a
desire
to
be
neuters
,
they
write
,
That
if
in
this
time
of
their
trouble
they
lookt
through
their
fingers
,
and
joyn'd
not
themselves
to
them
,
as
of
God
they
were
reputed
Traitors
,
so
they
should
be
excommunicated
from
their
societie
,
and
from
all
participation
with
them
in
the
administration
of
the
Sacraments
.
Their
number
of
the
new
supply
prov'd
not
so
great
,
but
that
they
were
fain
to
make
an
appoinment
with
the
Queen
,
and
quit
the
Town
after
Iohn
Knox
had
exhorted
them
to
constancie
in
a
Sermon
,
that
is
,
to
meet
again
so
soon
as
handsomly
they
could
,
which
they
did
to
a
second
Covenant
at
Perth
,
whereof
one
clause
was
,
That
they
should
not
spare
labo●rs
,
goods
,
substance
,
bodies
and
lives
,
in
maintaining
the
Libertie
of
the
whole
Congregation
,
and
every
member
thereof
,
against
whatsoever
person
(
no
Queen
excepted
)
shall
intend
the
said
trouble
for
cause
of
Religion
,
or
any
other
cause
d●pending
thereupon
▪
or
lay
to
their
charge
under
pretence
thereof
,
although
it
happen
to
be
coloured
with
any
other
outward
cause
.
So
that
they
might
murder
,
steal
,
or
break
any
civil
law
of
the
Realm
,
and
the
Congregation
must
defend
them
,
if
prosecu●ed
or
questioned
by
the
Magistrate
,
that
being
but
a
colourable
outward
cause
to
trouble
their
Religion
.
Whereupon
several
outrages
being
acted
by
them
that
now
began
to
be
called
,
Keepers
of
Libertie
,
as
seizing
upon
the
Irons
of
the
Coyning-house
,
because
of
the
impression
in
the
Images
they
stampt
,
and
a
late
pretence
of
appeal
made
from
the
Queen
Regent
unto
their
young
Queen
and
Dolphin
of
France
,
her
Husband
.
A
Proclamation
of
restraint
is
sent
in
their
names
to
be
publisht
at
Edenburgh
Crosse
.
Yet
notwithstanding
upon
some
conference
with
the
Regent
,
she
condescended
to
give
them
liberty
of
religion
,
provided
,
that
wheresoever
she
was
,
their
Preachers
should
cease
,
and
Her
Majesties
be
maintain'd
.
But
this
would
not
passe
,
because
it
put
to
silence
Gods
true
Messengers
,
that
is
,
restrained
them
from
railing
down
the
Queens
own
Religion
to
her
face
.
The
Queen
,
to
get
rid
of
her
trouble
,
if
she
could
,
not
long
after
at
Edenburgh
caus'd
such
an
Agreement
to
be
made
,
as
could
not
be
denyed
by
them
that
pretended
to
any
peace
or
quietness
at
all
.
Accordingly
Articles
on
both
sides
were
drawn
,
agreed
,
sign'd
and
proclaim'd
.
These
shrewdly
troubled
the
Brethren
in
black
,
who
meant
nothing
less
than
a
Peace
.
And
perceiving
some
of
their
party
so
conscientious
as
to
keep
faith
and
make
so
great
a
relapse
to
their
duty
,
as
to
go
to
the
Queen
at
her
call
,
they
convene
and
subscribe
a
third
bond
at
Sterling
,
whereof
this
is
a
link
,
—
As
we
tender
the
maintenance
of
true
Religion
,
that
none
of
us
shall
in
time
coming
pass
to
the
Queen
Dowager
,
to
talk
or
commune
with
her
,
for
any
Letter
or
Message
sent
by
her
unto
us
,
or
yet
to
be
sent
with
consent
of
the
rest
,
or
common
consultation
thereupon
:
which
was
so
religiously
observed
by
Knox
,
that
he
returns
the
Queens
Letters
upon
her
hands
,
and
would
not
give
them
to
the
Lords
,
as
was
by
Her
Majesty
required
.
But
now
must
a
new
quarrell
be
pickt
to
fetch
in
the
Lords
and
rest
of
the
Brethren
that
adhered
to
the
agreement
at
Edenburgh
;
And
this
was
by
the
Queens
fortifying
the
town
of
Leith
,
which
,
though
but
intended
for
a
place
of
retreat
in
case
she
should
be
overborn
by
their
strength
,
which
now
made
appearance
in
several
places
,
and
many
times
nearer
approaches
than
she
liked
,
was
notwithstanding
vogued
to
garison
her
Townes
with
the
French
,
and
to
have
in
design
by
them
,
the
conquest
of
the
Kingdome
.
By
way
of
charge
and
Declinatour
pass'd
divers
Letters
and
Proclamations
on
both
sides
;
From
hence
mounted
the
Brethren
to
admonitions
,
from
admonitions
to
votes
about
deprivation
,
upon
justification
thereof
by
Willock
and
Knox
the
prime
of
the
Clergy
;
From
votes
to
articles
and
the
Act
of
Suspention
together
with
the
banishment
of
her
person
,
allowing
Her
Majesty
but
24.
hours
to
prepare
for
her
passge
into
France
.
But
the
walls
of
Leith
were
not
to
be
blown
down
by
this
breath
,
nor
was
it
strong
enough
to
fill
the
sails
for
her
passage
into
France
:
A
stronger
wind
blew
out
of
the
Town
,
which
so
dispelled
the
Congregational
Brethren
,
that
glad
was
he
who
could
shelter
himself
;
and
many
grew
desperate
of
the
cause
.
But
Iohn
Knox
by
power
of
the
spirit
,
when
but
a
spark
or
two
of
rebellion
was
left
,
could
ever
blow
it
up
into
a
flame
,
which
he
began
now
at
Sterlin
in
a
Sermon
upon
the
80.
Psalm
v.
4
,
5
,
6
,
7.
and
encreased
it
in
another
afterwards
some where
else
upon
Iohn
6.
exhorting
the
Congregation
that
they
should
not
faint
,
but
that
they
should
sti●l
row
against
the
contrarious
blasts
,
till
that
Iesus
Christ
should
come
(
so
that
onely
the
day
of
judgement
is
to
put
an
end
to
the
Presbiterian
commotions
)
But
nothing
can
be
done
without
a
Covenant
,
which
An.
1560.
was
entred
at
Edenburgh
.
That
what
person
soever
will
plainly
reject
their
godly
enterprises
,
and
will
not
concur
as
a
good
and
true
member
of
their
Common-wealth
,
they
shall
fortifie
the
authoritie
of
Council
to
reduce
them
to
their
duty
,
&c.
The
issue
of
this
,
as
of
all
their
Covenants
,
was
to
put
many
quiet
conscientious
people
to
the
choice
of
either
extream
,
without
the
priviledge
of
a
detestable
neutrality
:
Do
as
we
do
,
Rebel
or
perish
;
whereby
they
never
faild
of
an
Army
that
should
guard
the
gospell
with
an
unparalell'd
villany
,
and
resist
the
Queen
Regent
unto
her
death
,
which
fell
out
very
opportunely
while
they
lay
at
the
siege
before
Leith
,
being
,
if
not
procur'd
by
their
means
,
very
evidently
hastened
by
their
malice
,
denying
Her
Majesty
the
benefit
of
some
drugs
,
for
which
she
sent
to
her
Apothecary
and
Chyrurgeon
,
and
in
her
inrecoverable
condition
not
indulging
her
free
speech
with
some
Lords
joyntly
though
of
their
own
faction
,
and
what
curtesie
they
granted
,
being
clogged
with
the
ungrateful
presence
,
and
more
unpleasing
discourse
of
Iohn
Willock
,
Brother-rebel-preacher
with
Knox
,
who
was
sent
on
purpose
to
set
the
Queens
conscience
on
the
rack
,
and
torture
it
to
despair
if
he
could
.
By
all
these
unchristian
proceedings
,
having
speeded
on
their
impatient
wishes
,
and
fretted
open
a
passage
for
that
Royal
soul
to
expire
,
they
become
soon
Lords
not
onely
of
the
Congregation
,
but
Countrey
,
and
having
eleven
points
of
the
law
(
their
young
Queen
and
her
Husband
being
absent
in
France
)
upon
advantage
enough
they
capitulate
with
their
Majesties
for
the
twelfth
.
In
which
pacification
the
Deputies
from
France
would
not
medle
with
the
matter
of
Religion
,
but
agreed
that
a
certain
number
of
Noblemen
should
be
chosen
in
the
next
Convention
and
Parliament
to
be
sent
to
their
Majesties
,
to
whom
they
shall
expose
those
things
that
shall
be
thought
needful
for
the
State
of
that
business
.
In
the
interim
,
the
Brethren
I
'le
warrant
you
were
not
idle
,
but
after
publick
thanksgiving
at
Edenburgh
for
their
deliverance
,
that
is
to
say
,
for
the
death
of
their
Queen
,
upon
whom
they
heap
(
though
they
name
her
not
)
a
heavy
load
of
calumnies
in
their
prayers
:
A
Committee
sits
to
distribute
Ministers
,
and
so
Knox
is
made
Primate
of
Edenburgh
,
or
in
it
rather
of
Scotland
,
that
being
the
fountain
head
from
whence
all
future
Rebellion
must
stream
,
by
Goodman
to
St.
Andrews
,
by
Heriot
to
Aberdeen
,
by
Row
to
St.
Iohnston
,
&c.
And
though
they
will
have
no
Bishops
,
they
'l
have
Over-seers
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
{non-Roman}
,
Spotswood
for
Lothian
,
Winram
for
Fife
,
&c.
And
now
to
work
they
go
to
drive
the
stray-doctrine
and
discipline
of
the
Countrey
,
into
the
Parliament
pound
at
Edenburgh
.
Please
your
Honours
comes
presently
from
the
supplicant
Barons
,
Gentlemen
and
Burgesses
;
A
Confession
of
Faith
with
a
more
imperious
preface
or
title
from
the
Presbytery
out
of
Matth
24.
And
this
glad
tidings
of
the
Kingdome
shall
be
preached
through
the
whole
world
for
a
witness
unto
all
Nations
,
and
then
shall
the
end
come
;
that
is
,
the
Presbyterian
Scot
shall
pull
down
all
Government
in
the
world
,
establish
the
Kingdome
of
Iesus
Christ
upon
the
earth
,
and
then
the
end
shall
come
,
the
work
is
done
,
't
is
fit
then
the
wages
should
be
paid
,
especially
since
by
this
new
engine
they
draw
Christ
into
their
Covenant
,
chap.
11.
rebellion
into
the
fifth
Commandement
under
the
notion
of
saving
the
life
of
innocents
,
and
repressing
Tyranny
;
resisting
authority
if
they
take
it
to
passe
the
bounds
of
the
Magistrates
office
,
not
suffering
innocent
bloud
to
be
shed
if
they
may
gain-stand
it
,
ch.
14.
Likewise
they
dash
all
moral
vertues
at
a
stroak
,
restrain
the
power
of
Gods
Grace
from
effecting
due
obedience
to
his
Law
,
ch.
15.
Confine
the
Catholick
Church
to
themselves
,
and
such
as
shall
communicate
with
them
,
denying
all
other
Christians
the
undeniable
benefit
of
their
Baptism
,
ch.
16
,
18.
which
they
say
notwithstanding
,
ch.
21.
was
instituted
of
God
to
make
a
visible
difference
betwixt
his
people
,
and
those
that
are
without
his
League
.
Pretend
to
reconcile
these
contradictions
,
making
both
true
at
a
time
.
This
Church
is
invisibly
known
onely
to
God
,
who
alone
knoweth
it
,
whom
he
hath
chosen
,
&c.
ch.
16.
and
yet
the
notes
,
signs
and
assured
tokens
,
whereby
the
immaculate
Spouse
of
Christ
Iesus
is
known
(
to
whom
?
)
from
the
horrible
Harlot
the
Church
malignant
we
affirm
are
,
&c.
Defraud
Antiquity
and
lineal
descent
in
an
undivided
continuity
the
reverence
rendred
by
the
Primitive
Fathers
of
the
Church
,
&
to
be
paid
by
us
for
the
first
knowledge
&
benefit
of
the
Gospel
:
and
yet
at
the
same
time
running
to
the
Ancients
for
strengthening
the
authority
of
the
Canon
.
For
the
doctrine
taught
in
our
Churches
(
say
they
)
is
contained
in
the
written
Word
of
God
,
to
wit
,
in
the
Books
of
the
New
and
Old
Testaments
,
in
those
Books
we
mean
which
have
been
reputed
(
by
whom
but
Bishops
and
Episcopal
Doctors
?
no
Pre●byterian
)
canonical
:
Depriving
the
Church
of
her
just
priviledge
in
interpreting
the
Scriptures
under
a
pretence
of
bestowing
it
upon
the
Spirit
,
distracting
Christians
hereby
in
matter
of
opinion
,
without
extraordinary
divine
revelation
,
as
in
the
point
of
Justification
,
wherein
St.
Paul
and
St.
Iames
seem
to
differ
;
and
in
matters
of
practice
by
the
example
of
St.
Peter
and
St.
Paul
,
Gal.
3.
All
this
in
one
ch.
viz.
18.
frame
a
plausible
excuse
for
negligence
in
,
or
after
the
receiving
the
Sacrament
of
the
Lords
Supper
,
ch.
21.
Exclude
all
but
Preachers
,
though
Priests
or
Deacons
,
from
the
efficatio●s
administration
of
the
Sacraments
,
annexing
the
power
and
vertue
of
the
same
to
divine
revelation
or
operation
of
a
Sermon
,
and
so
defrauding
many
that
have
had
legitimate
imposition
of
hands
,
call'd
Ordination
,
of
the
character
&
exercise
of
that
power
Justifie
such
as
resist
Supream
powers
,
doing
that
which
appertaineth
not
to
their
charge
,
ch.
24.
so
taking
away
the
glory
of
Christian
humility
,
patience
and
the
crown
of
Martyrdome
it self
.
Ret●act
in
part
ch
15.
what
they
professed
,
chap.
18.
about
the
notes
of
the
Church
,
and
so
take
Gods
Name
in
vain
,
making
a
formal
conf●ssion
of
his
truth
to
no
purpose
.
This
pretty
Pageant
fram'd
in
a
schismatical
Assembly
,
was
brought
into
the
packt
Parliament
to
be
voted
The
true
Representative
of
the
doctrine
of
Christs
Church
,
which
the
Bishops
suffered
quietly
to
pass
by
without
spoiling
any
of
the
pastboard
or
guilding
,
because
they
durst
not
(
writes
Knox
)
say
any
thing
to
the
contrary
;
and
very
likely
when
they
knew
it
would
be
to
no
purpose
,
and
were
well
assured
they
should
pay
their
Ecclesiastical
Benefices
,
if
not
their
lives
,
for
a
syllable
of
any
such
contradiction
,
the
Bretheren
having
petitioned
that
they
might
be
compelled
to
answer
to
former
accusations
,
and
to
other
likewise
they
had
yet
to
lay
to
their
charge
,
which
were
such
no
doubt
as
wanted
no
weight
of
further
delinquence
to
press
them
down
to
the
depth
of
any
Parliamentary
Vote
.
This
Confession
of
Faith
very
liberally
suffrag'd
,
was
sent
into
France
by
the
Lord
St.
Iohn
to
be
ratified
by
their
Majesties
.
By
which
act
of
pretended
submission
to
the
supremacy
of
their
Princes
,
we
may
interpret
the
true
meaning
of
all
the
rest
,
and
take
a
sure
essay
of
the
Presbyterian
subjection
,
whatsoever
otherwhere
they
pretend
,
which
I
desire
the
Reader
diligently
to
observe
,
and
have
in
mind
whensoever
afterward
shall
occur
their
hypocrisie
in
dutifull
expressions
,
for
saith
no
less
author
than
Mr.
Knox
;
No
ratification
brought
he
[
the
Lord
St.
Iohn
]
unto
us
but
that
we
little
regarded
or
yet
do
regard
;
for
all
that
we
did
was
rather
to
shew
our
dutiful
obedience
,
than
to
beg
of
them
[
the
King
and
Queen
]
any
strength
to
our
religion
,
which
from
God
hath
full
power
,
and
needed
not
the
suffrage
of
man
[
wherefore
then
was
it
put
to
the
Vote
in
Parliament
?
]
but
in
so
far
as
man
had
need
to
believe
it
,
if
that
ever
he
shall
have
participation
of
the
life
everlasting
.
Such
obedience
as
this
shewed
the
Souldiers
to
our
Saviour
when
they
bowed
the
knee
before
him
and
mocked
him
,
saying
,
Hail
King
of
the
Iews
.
Buchanan
acknowledgeth
it
was
sent
to
the
Queen
without
hope
of
grant
,
onely
to
discover
the
nakedness
of
her
thoughts
;
as
good
an
argument
of
the
modesty
,
as
the
other
was
of
loyalty
of
the
Brethren
.
But
this
was
not
enough
to
make
the
Assembly
magisterial
,
who
themselves
must
stoop
as
low
as
any
lay-brother
in
doctrine
and
confession
of
faith
.
It
is
the
discipline
that
must
hold
up
the
rod
(
at
least
,
if
not
the
axe
too
)
bind
their
Kings
in
chains
,
&
their
Nobles
in
links
of
iron
.
To
the
framing
of
which
,
immediately
after
this
Parliament
dissolved
,
commission
was
given
to
Mr.
Iohn
Winram
,
Sub-prior
of
St.
Andrews
,
Mr.
Iohn
Row
and
Iohn
Knox
,
Mr.
Iohn
Spotswood
,
Iohn
Willock
,
Mr.
Iohn
Dowglass
Rector
of
St.
Andrews
:
all
Iohns
and
beloved
disciples
,
that
had
laid
their
heads
on
Christs
breast
,
and
knew
his
heart
about
the
reglement
of
his
Kingdome
.
Yet
their
letters
of
credit
were
not
so
good
as
to
obtain
the
reception
of
Ambassadors
from
heaven
,
though
they
pretended
their
message
was
in
every
point
consonant
to
the
word
.
The
Lord
Erskin
as
great
a
professor
as
he
was
,
and
the
major
part
of
the
Nobility
refused
this
new
model
,
Knox
imputes
it
to
the
care
of
his
Kitchin
,
and
't
is
not
unlikely
he
and
the
rest
thought
their
title
as
good
to
the
Church
lands
,
that
they
might
eat
the
fat
,
and
be
cloathed
with
the
wooll
of
the
lambs
which
themselves
as
well
the
Clericall
Iohns
,
had
taken
the
pains
to
worry
and
slay
.
Or
it
may
be
they
had
a
care
of
their
eyes
which
already
began
to
swell
with
fatness
,
and
if
they
yielded
this
,
they
would
go
on
with
the
Psalmist
,
being
hold●n
with
pride
and
overwhelmed
with
cruelty
,
they
would
then
do
even
what
they
lust
.
Yet
this
curtesie
they
did
the
discipline
,
to
call
it
,
A
Book
of
devout
imaginations
,
that
is
,
zealous
whimzies
,
which
might
run
the
round
in
the
Name
sakes
noddles
,
but
if
they
once
got
ab●oad
with
power
to
captivate
the
thoughts
of
other
men
which
were
to
be
kept
in
a
more
reasonable
service
and
obedience
of
Christ
,
they
were
to
be
cast
down
by
the
Apostles
command
,
like
high
things
that
exalt
themselves
against
the
knowledge
if
God
;
yet
Argile
,
Glencarn
,
and
the
whole
private
pack
of
conjur'd
Rebels
subscribe
the
Book
,
and
promise
to
set
it
forward
at
the
uttermost
of
their
power
,
whose
names
were
enough
to
write
Nobility
in
the
front
,
and
hold
it
out
with
the
approbation
of
the
Honourable
to
the
people
.
But
to
accomplish
the
work
,
behold
the
hand
of
God
appears
through
this
cloud
,
and
scatters
morning
roses
in
the
way
of
the
R●formers
.
Here
(
saith
Knox
)
was
joy
to
Scotland
,
and
matter
of
Thanksgiving
for
the
wondrous
work
and
inestimable
benefit
of
the
Lord
.
And
what
is
this
but
the
death
of
an
innocent
young
King
Francis
the
second
,
Husband
to
the
Queen
of
Scots
?
who
because
no
friend
to
the
Brethren
,
and
so
a
robber
,
&c.
Knox
cannot
but
brand
his
memory
in
the
forehead
with
,
He
was
suddenly
stricken
with
an
Apost●me
in
the
deaf
ear
that
nev●r
would
hear
the
truth
of
God
.
His
glory
perished
,
and
the
pride
of
his
stubborn
heart
vanished
in
smoak
.
Upon
notice
hereof
was
a
new
Convention
of
the
Nobility
at
Edenburgh
,
wherein
the
Book
of
Discipline
was
again
perused
in
favour
of
some
that
pretended
ignorance
,
who
when
they
heard
it
were
not
so
taken
as
to
own
it
by
subscription
,
or
adde
to
the
authority
of
it
by
their
vote
,
yet
to
prepare
the
way
for
the
people
to
be
acquainted
with
it
,
twelve
things
call'd
Superintendents
are
●ut
out
,
chipt
and
fashioned
,
just
after
the
pattern
in
the
Book
.
And
because
all
must
run
in
the
name
,
Iohn
Spotswood
is
appointed
for
Lowthian
,
and
as
the
leading
man
is
in
the
printed
form
and
order
of
the
election
March
9
1560.
In
which
form
I
shall
onely
intimate
two
or
three
things
as
I
go
.
First
,
that
the
election
of
him
[
not
onely
approbation
]
is
in
shew
devolv'd
upon
the
people
,
who
promise
obedience
to
him
as
their
Pastor
no
longer
than
he
remains
faithfull
in
his
office
.
This
election
of
the
people
is
styl'd
,
The
Call
of
God
in
them
[
who
it
should
seem
miraculously
moves
their
hearts
,
and
directs
them
to
the
summoning
of
Iohn
]
This
Iohn
must
professe
,
That
the
life
of
Angels
relates
to
Christ
as
Head
and
Mediator
of
his
Church
,
that
is
,
if
any
thing
,
Christ
came
to
redeem
as
well
Angells
as
men
,
and
either
summon'd
part
of
those
lapsed
spirits
out
of
Hell
,
or
recovered
others
that
never
had
been
condemned
so
low
.
This
Iohn
must
further
profess
himself
Subject
to
the
wholesome
discipline
of
the
Church
,
and
,
to
avoid
ambiguity
,
the
discipline
of
the
same
Church
by
which
he
is
now
called
to
this
office
;
so
that
the
people
that
call
Iohn
are
infallibly
the
Church
,
and
this
the
Churches
Discipline
,
though
it
hath
not
yet
an
establishment
by
the
law
.
Farther
,
as
a
note
of
true
Christian
liberty
,
it
is
left
at
large
to
the
people
to
require
of
him
what
other
conditions
or
qualifications
they
think
fit
.
After
which
in
recompence
for
all
this
kindness
and
priviledge
,
they
are
to
oblige
themselves
to
take
what
he
shall
preach
for
Gospel
,
and
to
maintain
Iohn
—
against
all
such
as
wickedly
would
rebell
against
God
and
his
holy
Ordinance
;
that
is
,
They
are
to
make
a
tumult
when
Iohn
holds
up
his
finger
and
fight
against
the
Queen
her self
as
a
rebell
if
,
though
never
so
deservedly
,
she
suspend
him
from
the
exercise
of
his
Superintendence
or
Over
seeing
,
as
they
call
it
.
At
last
,
God
is
mocked
in
a
prayer
,
and
blasphemously
craved
his
benediction
and
assistance
in
this
work
begun
,
which
shall
appear
by
and
by
to
be
nought
else
but
the
sin
of
witchcraft
,
a
rebellion
against
his
own
annointed
their
Soveraign
Queen
.
But
all
this
while
somewhat
else
was
in
hand
beside
the
Superintendence
of
Iohn
.
The
Lord
Iames
is
sent
into
France
,
but
with
such
limited
instructions
from
the
black
Brethren
,
that
he
must
by
no
means
condescend
that
the
Queen
should
have
either
the
publick
or
private
exercise
of
her
Religion
[
this
is
Christian
liberty
too
:
]
This
would
be
to
betray
the
Church
of
God
,
and
expose
the
Reformation
to
danger
,
who
making
this
reply
,
She
may
have
it
secretly
in
her
Chamber
,
Who
can
stop
her
?
no body
〈◊〉
I
,
though
every body
meant
it
,
they
all
shewed
the
danger
,
and
let
him
go
.
But
before
his
return
,
a
little
to
stop
the
violence
of
these
furious
Reformers
,
comes
over
an
Ambassador
from
France
with
three
demands
,
the
last
of
which
was
,
That
the
Bishops
and
Churchmen
should
be
restored
in
their
former
places
,
and
be
suffered
to
intermit
with
their
livings
.
The
Council
were
not
very
ready
to
give
him
answer
,
but
put
him
off
to
the
Parliament
in
May
,
and
then
having
no
stomack
to
sit
,
feigned
a
dilatory
pretence
,
That
they
would
wait
the
certainty
of
the
Queens
pleasure
,
whereof
the
Bishops
having
assurance
good
enough
held
a
meeting
at
Sterlin
,
and
the
Loyal
Nobility
were
busie
in
executing
Her
Majesties
comands
,
the
end
whereof
the
prophetical
brethren
not
liking
very
well
,
rub'd
up
their
invention
and
fram'd
a
jealousie
of
the
Queens
authority
to
be
usurped
,
and
their
alleageance
moved
them
(
tender-hearted
men
)
to
meet
as
numerous
as
they
could
at
Edenburgh
,
to
prevent
it
.
After
this
,
as
a
most
certain
token
of
Rebellion
at
hand
,
comes
a
new
supplicate
from
the
Assembly
of
the
Church
to
the
Parliament
(
met
at
length
)
most
humbly
beseeching
their
Honors
,
that
such
order
may
be
taken
that
they
have
not
occasion
to
take
again
the
sword
of
just
defence
(
't
is
not
the
sword
of
the
spirit
they
mean
)
which
they
had
willingly
●esigned
over
into
their
hands
This
wrestled
so
well
with
the
civil
authority
,
that
hereby
,
writes
Knox
,
got
Satan
the
second
fall
after
he
had
begun
to
trouble
the
state
of
Religion
.
Now
returns
Lord
Iames
with
Letters
from
the
Queen
desiring
the
Lords
to
entertain
quietness
,
and
to
suffer
nothing
to
be
attempted
against
the
Contract
of
peace
made
at
Leith
,
till
her
own
home-coming
.
In
obedience
whereunto
,
having
dismissed
the
French
Ambassadour
with
a
negative
to
all
he
brought
,
they
divide
themselves
into
several
squadrons
,
burn
and
ruin
all
the
Monasteries
and
religious
houses
they
come
near
,
and
this
in
such
a
trice
,
that
they
accounted
it
little
lesse
than
a
miracle
,
and
bragg'd
that
God
wrought
potently
with
them
by
his
hand
.
It
was
time
now
for
the
Queen
her self
to
come
over
,
these
Masters
of
mis-rule
keeping
no
better
order
,
whose
sudden
arrival
surprised
the
Brethren
,
but
upon
several
grounds
and
reasons
drew
a
great
confluence
to
her
Court
.
The
Reformers
seem'd
as
officious
as
the
best
,
wipe
their
mouthes
and
supple
them
into
as
smooth
language
as
oyl
,
and
drop
nothing
but
honey
at
the
lips
,
which
the
good
Queen
requited
with
all
fair
concessions
of
their
liberty
in
Religion
,
reserving
onely
the
priviledge
of
her
Family
;
but
this
was
against
the
Lord
Iames's
instructions
,
to
testifie
their
adherence
:
whereunto
,
her
devotions
disturb'd
,
and
had
not
some
better
temper
(
that
is
a
stronger
hand
)
interposed
,
her
Chappel
had
been
in
all
likelihood
raz'd
unto
the
ground
,
for
the
Book
of
Discipline
affords
it
no
singular
indulgence
,
which
the
Preachers
vehemently
exhorted
to
have
ectablisht
by
an
Act
and
publick
law
[
of
the
sword
,
]
affi●ming
,
That
if
they
suffered
things
to
hang
in
suspence
when
God
had
given
unto
them
sufficient
power
in
their
hand
,
they
should
after
sob
for
it
,
but
should
not
get
it
.
In
order
whereunto
,
the
Earl
of
Arrane
protests
against
the
Queens
Proclamation
,
That
Gods
Law
having
pronounced
death
to
the
Idolater
—
he
would
have
it
universally
observed
.
Vniversal
includes
all
particulars
,
and
so
the
Queens
not
exempted
,
but
the
meaning
is
,
if
she
say
her
prayers
according
to
the
perswasion
of
her
c●nscience
,
she
must
dye
.
To
enforce
this
,
Iohn
Knox
preacheth
a
most
violent
Sermon
,
enveigheth
against
Idolatry
,
addes
,
That
one
Masse
(
he
confesseth
there
were
no
more
suffered
at
first
)
was
more
fearful
unto
him
than
if
10000.
armed
enemies
were
landed
in
any
part
of
the
Realm
of
purpose
to
suppr●sse
the
whole
Religion
:
And
because
he
improved
not
the
mystery
of
this
clause
into
an
actual
rebellion
,
he
professed
himself
a
very
formal
penitent
afterward
,
that
he
had
not
spoke
his
meaning
plainer
;
that
he
had
not
directly
animated
them
to
put
their
hands
to
the
work
of
the
Lord
[
that
is
,
execute
his
law
against
Idolaters
,
and
murder
the
Queen
for
maintaining
a
single
Masse
.
]
The
good
Queen
for
all
this
admits
him
to
her
presence
,
reasons
mildely
with
him
about
the
point
,
wherein
she
so
accutely
and
judiciously
acts
her
part
,
that
she
makes
him
maintain
all
the
absurdities
incident
thereunto
.
Opposition
to
supream
Majestrates
by
the
sword
:
That
the
Israelites
in
Aegypt
,
Daniel
and
his
company
in
Babylon
,
and
any
of
the
children
of
God
otherwhere
,
would
have
made
resistance
by
the
sword
,
if
God
had
given
them
the
power
and
the
means
.
To
the
proof
of
which
,
in
behalf
of
the
Primitive
Christians
,
I
wonder
he
cited
not
this
of
Tertullian
,
Vrbes
,
insulas
,
castella
,
municipia
,
conciliabula
,
castra
ipsa
,
tribus
▪
decurias
,
palatium
,
Senatum
,
forum
impleverunt
,
they
were
numerous
enough
,
yet
no
Knoxes
among
them
,
nulli
inter
illos
Albiniani
,
nulli
Nigriani
,
nulli
Cassiani
.
The
dispute
being
ended
,
he
gave
this
manerly
character
of
the
Queen
;
That
there
was
in
her
a
proud
mind
,
a
crafty
wit
,
and
an
indurate
heart
against
God
and
his
truth
.
After
this
the
matter
of
Religion
for
the
Queen
and
her
Family
was
more
publickly
agitated
between
the
Nobility
and
Ministry
,
neither
party
convinced
▪
and
so
each
to
other
made
opposite
conclusions
.
Many
Lords
retracted
their
subscription
to
the
Discipline
,
and
drew
into
question
the
expedience
of
Assemblies
.
This
put
them
upon
offering
the
Discipline
to
the
Queen
,
which
Her
Majesty
absolutely
refused
.
Hereupon
the
state
of
the
question
is
altered
,
and
Burrowes
a
bold
fellow
,
is
set
in
the
front
of
a
seditious
party
,
to
put
up
articles
about
maintenance
for
the
Ministry
of
the
Reformation
.
For
quietness
sake
to
this
purpose
,
the
Bishops
relinquish
the
third
part
of
their
revenues
,
to
settle
which
,
Commissioners
are
ordered
,
and
to
satisfie
any
of
the
discontented
faction
,
proclamation
is
made
,
that
it
shall
be
dispatched
with
all
possible
speed
.
Some
makes
jests
upon
it
,
as
the
Earl
of
Huntley
bids
Good
morrow
to
the
Lords
of
the
two
parts
.
But
Knox
who
gap'd
at
the
whole
,
said
in
earnest
;
That
the
Spirit
of
God
was
not
the
author
of
it
,
for
he
saw
two
parts
freely
given
to
the
Devil
,
and
the
third
must
be
divided
between
God
and
the
Devil
.
The
regret
at
this
so
sticks
in
the
stomachs
of
him
and
his
Assembly
brethren
that
they
are
fain
to
have
recourse
to
their
usual
remedy
,
and
disgorge
it
in
a
filthy
supplicate
to
the
Queen
,
part
of
the
contents
were
these
:
Gods
hands
cannot
long
spare
in
his
anger
to
strike
the
head
and
the
tayl
,
the
inobedient
Prince
and
sinful
people
—
They
presse
the
Queen
again
to
forsake
the
practice
of
her
Religion
,
and
revile
it
as
the
fosterer
of
whores
,
adluterers
,
drunkards
blasphemers
of
God
,
&c.
threaten
that
the
obstinate
maintenance
of
it
shall
in
the
end
be
to
her
destruction
of
soul
and
body
,
if
she
rep●nted
not
—
declare
They
could
no
longer
keep
silence
,
unlesse
they
would
make
themselves
criminal
before
God
of
her
bloud
,
perishing
in
her
own
iniquity
,
and
they
plainly
admonish
her
of
the
danger
to
come
—
They
humbly
require
that
Bishops
may
not
be
set
up
again
,
to
empire
above
the
people
of
God
,
for
they
fear
that
such
usurpation
of
their
former
estate
will
be
neither
in
the
end
pleasant
to
themselves
,
nor
profitable
to
them
that
would
place
them
in
that
tyranny
—
That
if
the
Papists
think
to
triumph
where
they
may
,
and
to
do
what
they
list
,
where
there
is
not
a
party
able
to
resist
them
,
that
some
will
think
,
that
the
godly
must
begin
where
they
left
.
But
the
equity
and
civility
of
tendring
such
language
was
discussed
between
Secretary
Lethington
and
the
Brethren
,
who
advised
them
upon
any
grievance
to
make
complaint
and
appeal
to
the
Law
.
Here
one
mends
the
matter
and
saith
,
If
the
sheep
shall
complain
to
the
Wolfe
[
the
Queen
]
That
the
wolfes
whelps
have
devoured
the
lambs
,
the
complainer
may
stand
in
dange●
,
&c.
After
such
cautious
reasoning
,
as
Knox
calls
it
,
the
supplication
was
left
to
the
Secretary
to
review
,
who
moderated
the
language
,
but
not
so
as
to
gain
a
grant
from
the
Queen
,
nor
indeed
did
the
Brethren
expect
it
,
but
took
advantage
hereby
to
pursue
their
design
to
stirre
up
the
people
by
certain
emissaries
s●nt
from
the
Assembly
,
of
whom
the
great
incendiary
Knox
must
be
one
,
whose
gospel
had
the
usual
successe
in
Kyle
and
Gallowoy
,
the
chief
Professors
meeting
at
Ayre
,
where
they
covenanted
to
maintain
the
Ministers
of
the
evangel
against
all
persons
,
power
and
authority
,
that
should
oppose
themselvs
to
the
doctrine
propounded
—
So
that
whosover
should
hurt
,
molest
or
trouble
any
of
their
bodies
,
should
be
reputed
enemies
to
the
whole
—
except
he
submit
to
the
government
of
the
Church
then
established
[
they
say
not
by
whom
.
]
At
the
next
Assembly
were
great
complaints
made
about
the
Churches
lacking
Ministers
▪
and
Ministers
their
stipends
,
&c.
For
redress
hereof
some
thought
of
a
new
Supplication
,
others
mentioned
that
no
answer
had
been
given
to
the
former
.
So
that
for
such
things
which
could
not
be
done
without
the
Queen
,
they
●eem'd
to
express
themselves
dutifull
subjects
in
waiting
her
pleasure
,
the
rest
that
could
,
they
did
by
themselves
,
not
craving
her
consent
or
approbation
,
unless
in
mockery
to
make
sport
.
But
because
the
law
kept
not
pace
with
the
Brethrens
haste
,
nor
,
as
they
thought
,
the
Queen
with
the
law
,
they
take
an
easie
occasion
for
a
quicker
dispatch
.
Having
discovered
some
Priest
that
said
Masse
at
Easter
,
avow'd
by
the
Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
contrary
to
the
Queens
Proclamation
,
they
take
justice
into
their
own
hands
,
clap
him
up
in
prison
,
whose
pardon
the
Queen
could
scarcely
obtain
with
abundance
of
tear●
:
punish
others
,
and
give
int●mation
to
the
Abbot
of
Cosragnel
,
the
Parson
of
Sangohar
,
&c.
that
they
should
neither
complain
to
the
Queen
nor
Council
,
but
should
execute
the
punishment
that
God
had
appointed
to
Idolaters
in
his
L●w
,
by
such
means
as
they
might
wherever
they
should
be
apprehended
.
This
incensed
the
Queen
,
yet
put
her
not
beside
a
temper'd
discourse
with
Iohn
Knox
(
whose
you
may
be
s●re
had
been
this
bloudy
advice
)
to
whom
Her
Majesty
propounds
this
question
:
Will
ye
allow
that
they
shall
take
my
sword
in
their
hand
?
who
answered
,
The
sword
of
justice
is
Gods
—
and
they
that
in
the
fear
of
God
execute
judgement
where
God
hath
commanded
,
offend
not
God
,
altho●gh
Kings
do
it
not
;
neither
yet
sin
th●y
that
bridle
Kings
to
strike
innocent
men
in
their
rage
.
The
Queen
yielded
not
to
his
reason
,
she
did
to
his
power
with
her
poor
deceived
lieg
people
:
And
so
strickt
she
was
in
observing
her
laws
made
against
her
own
interest
,
that
she
suffered
the
Bishops
and
d●vers
other
Priests
to
be
summoned
before
the
Earl
of
Argile
,
accus'd
and
committed
to
prison
.
In
requital
for
which
act
of
impartial
justice
writes
Iohn
Knox
,
All
this
was
done
of
a
most
deep
craft
,
to
abuse
the
simplicity
of
the
Protestants
,
that
they
should
not
presse
the
Queen
with
any
other
thing
concerning
matters
of
Religion
.
A
good
encouragement
for
Princes
to
grant
any
thing
to
the
Presbytery
,
when
by
their
largest
concessions
they
shall
obtain
nothing
but
the
character
of
politick
deceivers
,
gain
neither
upon
their
affection
nor
duty
.
Indeed
the
more
reasonable
part
of
the
Nobility
and
people
did
somewhat
reverence
the
Queen
for
her
great
largeness
,
and
decl●n'd
for
some
time
being
further
importunate
instruments
of
her
trouble
,
or
the
Clergies
imperious
tyranny
upon
her
conscience
,
which
made
an
absolute
breach
between
the
Earl
of
Murray
and
Knox
,
who
denounced
Gods
judgements
upon
him
for
his
coldness
in
his
service
:
The
like
he
did
publickly
in
a
Sermon
to
the
rest
that
should
consent
to
the
Queens
Marriage
with
an
Infidel
(
for
such
are
all
Papists
with
the
Presbytery
,
though
they
hold
the
same
Creed
)
which
he
said
was
to
banish
Christ
Iesus
from
the
Realm
.
These
and
other
his
ex●travagancies
were
such
as
disliked
both
parties
,
who
concurred
to
have
him
question'd
by
the
Queen
,
which
,
poor
Lady
,
she
could
not
do
(
according
to
his
desert
)
for
the
passionate
cries
and
tears
which
,
this
Tiger
confesseth
,
burst
out
in
such
abundance
,
that
her
Page
could
scarcely
furnish
her
with
Handkirchiefs
enough
to
dry
her
eyes
.
To
whom
all
the
apology
he
makes
is
,
his
moderation
used
out
of
the
Pulpit
,
a
falsehood
,
as
may
be
evid●nc'd
by
his
other
discourses
and
Letters
,
as
likewise
in
that
he
said
,
He
was
not
master
of
himself
,
but
must
obey
him
who
commands
him
to
speak
plain
,
and
to
flatter
no
flesh
upon
the
face
of
the
earth
.
The
Queens
grief
had
so
prevail'd
with
her
,
that
he
was
commanded
to
wait
a
time
in
the
next
chamber
,
where
,
to
testifie
his
compassion
and
sense
of
those
Royal
Tears
,
he
entertained
merry
discourse
with
the
Court
Ladies
,
jeering
them
about
their
beauties
and
apparel
.
At
last
he
had
liberty
given
him
to
depart
,
and
that
(
according
to
the
Queens
good
nature
)
without
a
c●nsure
.
In
recompense
of
which
kindness
,
two
Felons
Armstrong
and
Cranstone
being
to
undergo
the
tryal
of
the
law
,
Iohn
Knox
,
(
to
whom
,
by
his
own
acknowledgement
,
the
charge
was
given
to
make
advertisements
whensoever
danger
should
appear
,
because
zealous
brethren
)
summons
in
by
Letters
the
Countrey
to
their
rescue
,
for
which
the
Master
of
Maxwell
,
his
old
friend
;
discharged
himself
of
a
rebellious
familiar
,
and
never
would
own
him
more
.
He
was
again
brought
before
the
Queen
and
Council
,
but
dismissed
as
formerly
,
though
as
impudently
as
ever
he
maintained
all
his
rebellious
doctrine
,
and
blaspemously
abused
Scripture
to
confirm
it
.
In
December
1563.
was
another
General
Assembly
,
and
several
Petitions
of
Ministers
presented
,
but
their
dutiful
demeanor
had
not
been
such
,
as
to
win
a
speedy
answer
and
grant
of
their
demands
.
They
complained
of
some
such
speech
given
them
.
As
Ministers
will
not
follow
our
counsel
,
so
will
we
suffer
Ministers
to
labour
for
themselves
,
and
see
what
speed
they
come
.
To
which
the
whole
▪
Assembly
made
this
modest
reply
:
If
the
Queen
will
not
we
must
.
Some
dispute
there
was
between
the
Lord
Secretary
Lethington
and
the
Brethren
▪
Go●dman
being
their
speaker
,
for
Iohn
Knox
was
sullen
and
musty
at
that
time
,
having
lashed
out
so
far
,
that
some
even
of
the
Protestants
themselves
said
,
What
can
the
Pope
do
more
than
to
send
forth
his
Letters
and
require
them
to
be
obeyed
.
At
length
he
made
a
speech
,
wherein
he
desired
to
have
his
actions
justified
and
owned
by
the
whole
Assembly
,
or
else
he
threatned
he
would
never
in
publick
,
nor
private
,
as
a
publick
Minister
open
his
mouth
in
doctrine
or
reasoning
.
The
Brethren
trembling
at
this
immediately
voted
and
avowed
his
fact
to
be
the
fact
of
the
whole
Assembly
.
But
this
with
the
rest
,
alienated
the
affections
not
onely
of
the
Queen
and
Court
,
but
of
rational
Lay-Protestants
from
their
Ministers
,
whereat
they
,
hating
the
name
of
Dumb
dogs
(
which
was
the
insepar●ble
title
of
the
Bishops
)
barked
aloud
every
day
in
their
Pulpits
,
but
as
it
happened
this
was
no
time
to
bite
.
In
the
next
Assembly
1564.
their
words
were
scan'd
,
some
advocates
they
found
,
but
more
accusers
.
Here
,
as
in
the
other
,
was
a
publick
Schism●
among
the
Reformers
,
divers
Lords
and
Ministers
withdrawing
themselves
,
and
transacting
many
things
about
the
Church
:
At
length
they
were
drawn
together
to
the
hear●●g
of
Knox's
Cause
,
which
was
very
largely
discussed
between
the
Lord
Secretary
Lethington
and
him
.
The
propositions
maintained
by
Knox
were
these
five
.
1.
That
Subjects
have
delivered
an
innocent
from
the
hands
of
their
King
,
and
therefore
offended
not
God
.
2.
That
Subjects
have
refused
to
strike
innocents
,
when
a
King
commanded
,
and
in
so
doing
denyed
no
just
obedience
.
3.
That
such
as
struck
at
the
commandement
of
the
King
,
were
before
God
reputed
murderers
.
4.
That
God
hath
not
onely
of
a
subject
made
a
King
,
but
also
he
armed
subjects
against
their
natural
King
,
&
commanded
them
to
take
vengeance
upon
him
according
to
his
law
.
5.
And
lastly
,
That
Gods
people
hath
executed
Gods
law
against
their
King
,
having
no
farther
regard
to
him
in
that
behalf
,
than
if
he
had
been
the
most
simple
subject
within
the
Realm
.
To
the
proof
of
these
,
holy
Scripture
and
Ecclesiastick
History
is
shamefully
wrested
;
all
the
extraordinary
precedents
in
the
Old
Testament
forced
to
justifie
the
new
practice
of
the
Schismatical
Scots
,
and
Iohn
Knox
made
as
familiar
with
God
,
and
as
private
to
his
most
secret
counsels
,
as
any
of
the
Prophets
or
Apostles
in
the
Bible
.
These
are
to
this
day
the
doctrines
of
the
Disciplinarian
Brethren
,
by
which
Kings
and
Princes
may
see
how
much
concerned
they
are
to
beware
of
,
and
by
an
indispen●able
coercive
power
,
when
they
have
it
,
to
restrain
them
:
And
all
good
subjects
are
to
abandon
utterly
their
opinions
and
practice
,
lest
the
Devil
possesse
them
,
as
from
the
beginning
he
hath
done
these
swine
,
and
cast
them
down
headlong
into
Hell
.
At
the
end
of
this
dispute
,
much
ado
there
was
about
the
votes
of
the
Assembly
,
but
their
divisions
being
many
,
they
at
last
advised
Knox
to
send
for
the
opinions
of
Calvin
and
other
eminent
Divines
in
the
Reformed
Churches
,
which
he
cunningly
declin'd
,
pretending
he
was
assured
he
had
them
all
on
his
side
(
a
pretty
credit
for
the
forreign
Reformation
)
and
would
not
so
wrong
his
cause
as
to
call
it
in
question
before
any
of
them
.
And
so
,
re
infecta
,
the
Assembly
brake
up
.
Not
long
after
the
banished
Earl
of
Lenox
had
leave
to
return
into
Scotland
,
and
was
graciously
received
by
the
Queen
.
In
favour
of
whom
,
that
he
might
be
restored
to
his
lands
,
Her
Majesty
intended
to
call
a
Parliament
,
but
desired
the
Earl
of
Murray
that
nothing
about
Religion
might
be
mentioned
;
He
said
,
he
could
not
promise
it
,
for
the
precise
Ministry
,
as
they
were
now
called
,
did
not
use
to
stand
to
the
Queens
curtesie
in
Church
aff●irs
.
Nor
did
they
now
forbear
,
although
they
knew
Her
pleasure
,
but
gave
in
again
their
old
factious
articles
,
and
ordained
many
things
in
their
Assembly
about
the
Church
.
Now
begins
the
Queens
affecti●on
to
shew
itself
toward
the
young
Lord
Darley
,
and
Secretary
Lethington
is
dispatched
into
England
to
signifie
to
Queen
Elizabeth
,
that
she
minded
to
marry
him
.
Whether
in
reference
to
this
or
no
I
know
not
,
but
Pope
Knox's
Bulls
are
dispersed
abroad
,
and
the
Brethren
of
Edenburgh
,
Dundee
,
Fife
,
&c
,
summon'd
to
come
in
and
arme
themselves
to
make
a
new
supplication
to
the
Queen
,
which
was
presented
in
very
dutiful
manner
(
no
question
)
by
the
Superintendent
of
Lowthian
,
wherein
Her
Majesty
was
advised
to
take
heed
of
the
matter
,
if
any
Idolatry
and
Superstition
were
used
at
Easter
following
.
The
poor
Queens
task
was
hard
,
having
two
Popes
to
please
,
but
this
nearer
home
threatening
greater
mischief
to
her
Crown
and
person
,
must
be
served
first
,
and
accordingly
prohibitions
were
sent
out
to
all
suspected
places
and
persons
,
especially
to
the
Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
and
Aberdeen
,
not
to
use
Masse
.
And
that
they
should
not
do
any
such
thing
as
was
feared
by
the
Protestants
,
or
convene
any
Council
,
&c.
This
stopt
not
the
strickter
inquisition
of
the
Precisians
,
who
intercepted
Sir
Iames
Carvet
upon
the
road
,
having
it
should
seem
,
been
at
some
private
Masse
,
revested
him
with
his
garments
,
carried
him
to
the
Market-Crosse
at
Edenburgh
,
bound
the
Chalice
to
his
hand
,
and
him
to
the
Crosse
,
let
him
stand
there
an
hour
or
two
for
the
boyes
to
throw
egges
at
,
which
they
called
,
Serving
him
with
his
Easter
egges
.
This
popular
piece
of
justice
was
approved
afterward
,
and
seconded
by
a
grave
censure
to
the
same
punishment
at
the
Assize
,
onely
for
some
solemnity
,
he
had
appointed
to
him
the
attendance
of
the
Hangman
.
The
Queen
sent
a
serious
Letter
to
the
Provost
&
Bayliff
,
to
proceed
legally
with
the
seditious
executioners
of
justice
,
but
hereof
was
little
notice
taken
beside
setting
Sir
Iames
and
his
company
at
liberty
upon
Her
Majesties
special
Command
.
In
the
month
of
May
following
some
of
the
Precise
Nobility
and
Clergy
being
angry
that
they
failed
of
a
design
they
had
against
the
Earl
Bothwell
(
whom
they
summon'd
to
Edenburgh
,
but
he
diverted
toward
France
)
turn'd
their
Law-Court
into
an
Ecclesiastick
Assembly
,
and
,
without
any
authority
from
the
Queen
,
sate
down
to
consult
about
maintaining
of
Religion
,
but
Her
Majesty
knowing
by
custome
that
would
end
in
a
Rebellion
,
cites
them
all
to
Sterlin
about
her
marriage
with
the
Lord
Darley
,
and
to
subscribe
a
Writ
about
obedience
to
him
as
their
Soveraign
,
which
the
Brethren
that
bent
themselves
every
way
to
cross
her
,
caused
the
Earl
Murray
to
refuse
,
till
some
conditions
about
religion
were
consented
to
on
her
part
,
and
a
Convention
ordered
to
be
at
St
Iohnston
to
that
purpose
.
A
day
for
which
being
prefixed
,
that
a
business
of
that
consequence
might
be
the
more
sedately
and
peaceably
deliberated
on
,
the
principals
of
the
Precisians
summon
in
what
strength
they
could
out
of
the
Countrey
,
which
Her
Majesty
fore-seeing
was
to
force
her
consent
to
whatsoever
they
would
propound
,
put
off
the
day
till
she
had
advised
with
her
Council
,
after
which
the
23.
of
Iune
following
was
appointed
,
but
the
Queen
being
by
that
time
too
well
guarded
agai●●t
the
intended
violence
,
the
Brethren
had
no
stomack
to
assemble
;
and
to
divert
the
Earl
of
Murray
,
who
●as
going
thither
,
feign
a
formal
sto●y
of
a
design
upon
his
person
.
That
the
Lord
Darley
should
discourse
with
him
and
draw
him
into
a
dispute
,
whereupon
David
Rizio
(
of
whom
more
shall
be
said
hereafter
)
was
to
strike
in
,
and
with
some
other
Assistants
that
were
in
readinesse
,
murder
him
.
To
colour
the
Earls
absence
,
was
given
out
that
he
was
taken
with
a
flux
,
and
lay
sick
at
Lochlevin
,
where
he
remained
till
the
Queen
came
to
Edenburgh
.
In
the
interim
,
there
is
held
a
general
Ass●mbly
of
the
Church
Iuly
24.
By
this
time
the
Brethren
had
mustered
their
strength
,
and
were
resolved
to
capitulate
to
the
rigour
with
the
Queen
,
six
very
modest
Articles
are
drawn
up
,
and
sent
by
five
Commissioners
to
be
ratified
by
Her
Majesty
in
Parliament
.
The
first
and
fifth
of
which
were
to
have
her
sign
her
own
death
,
in
case
she
altered
not
her
Religon
,
for
the
Papistical
and
blasphemous
Masse
,
with
all
Papistical
Idolatry
,
&c.
must
be
abolished
throughout
the
Realm
,
not
onely
in
the
subjects
,
but
also
in
the
Queens
own
person
,
with
punishment
against
all
persons
that
should
be
deprehended
(
Her
Majesty
expresly
named
in
the
former
,
and
not
excepted
in
the
latter
,
and
the
punishment
appointed
for
Idolaters
is
death
,
as
they
every where
mention
)
The
Queen
having
received
this
pleasing
message
departs
privately
to
Dunkeld
,
whither
she
is
persecuted
by
this
Commission
,
prevail'd
with
for
audience
,
and
importun'd
for
a
dispatch
.
In
her
answer
she
delayes
them
for
eight
dayes
,
after
which
she
intended
to
be
in
Edenburgh
with
her
Council
.
To
gain
Her
Majesties
concession
the
Brethren
arm
themselves
and
assemble
at
St.
Leonard
Crag
.
The
Queen
saw
it
was
now
high
time
to
speak
her
mind
,
which
she
did
in
a
particular
return
to
the
six
Articles
.
To
the
first
,
she
onely
demanded
of
her
subjects
what
she
freely
gave
to
them
,
liberty
of
Conscience
in
the
exercise
of
Religion
:
hoped
they
would
not
press
her
to
receive
any
religion
against
her
conscience
,
which
should
be
unto
her
a
continual
trouble
by
remorse
,
and
a
perpetual
unquietness
.
And
to
deal
plainly
,
Her
Majesty
neither
will
nor
may
leave
the
Religion
wherein
she
hath
been
nour●shed
and
brought
up
.
But
the
Brethren
still
prosecute
the
religious
cause
,
and
to
prepare
it
the
better
for
the
Parliament
approaching
▪
the
Earls
of
A●gile
and
Murray
,
&c.
meet
at
Sterlin
to
consult
.
The
Queen
takes
this
ill
;
s●nds
her
two
Advocates
Mr.
Spense
and
Mr.
Crichton
,
who
c●uld
by
no
means
perswade
them
to
come
to
Edenburgh
.
The
Queen
p●orogues
the
Parliament
to
the
fi●st
of
September
,
preparing
by
Letters
and
Proclamations
to
be
in
as
good
a
military
posture
of
defence
as
they
could
.
Upon
the
18.
of
Iuly
Proclamation
was
made
for
obedience
to
be
rendred
to
the
Lord
Darley
as
King
,
the
next
morning
he
was
Married
to
the
Queen
,
notwithstanding
such
disturbance
intended
as
the
Queen
was
fain
to
raise
an
Army
to
secure
her
in
her
Marriage
.
The
Precise
Lords
had
appointed
the
rendezvouz
for
their
forces
the
24.
of
August
,
and
a
countermand
issued
out
from
their
Majesties
to
attend
them
at
Linlithgow
the
same
day
.
But
upon
the
19.
day
of
that
month
Iohn
Knox
preacheth
before
the
King
at
Edenburgh
upon
Isa.
26.13
.
O
Lord
our
God
,
other
Lords
besides
thee
have
had
dominion
over
us
,
but
by
thee
onely
will
we
make
mention
of
thy
name
.
He
declaims
against
Tyrants
and
wicked
Princes
,
saith
expresly
,
That
God
sets
in
that
room
(
for
the
offences
and
ingratitude
of
the
people
)
boyes
and
women
—
That
God
justly
punishe●
Ahab
and
his
Posterity
,
because
he
would
not
take
order
with
that
Harlot
Iezabel
.
The
King
knew
whom
he
meant
,
and
forbore
his
dinner
out
of
anger
.
Knox
was
summon'd
before
the
Council
,
and
wisht
to
abstain
from
preaching
for
some
few
day●s
;
He
answered
,
That
he
had
spoken
nothing
but
according
to
his
Text
,
and
if
th●Church
would
command
him
either
to
speak
or
abstain
,
he
would
abstain
So
far
as
the
word
of
God
would
permit
.
So
the
Kings
command
must
give
way
to
the
Churches
,
and
Iohn
Knox
regulate
the
Churches
too
according
to
the
word
,
The
Lords
range
up
and
down
the
Countrey
to
encrease
their
strength
,
but
find
not
what
success
they
hop'd
for
.
This
makes
some
divisions
in
their
Councils
,
Murray
and
Glencarne
were
for
an
accommodation
;
the
Hamiltons
put
no
confidence
in
peace
,
pretending
the
enmity
of
Kings
was
implacable
,
no
other
way
to
be
extinguished
but
by
their
death
.
This
harsh
advice
took
place
with
none
but
such
as
adhered
to
them
upon
a
mystical
reason
,
their
nea●●itle
to
the
Crown
:
And
many
others
looking
upon
the
quarrel
as
prosecuted
upon
private
interest
,
more
than
the
publick
good
,
which
was
pretended
,
deserted
their
party
,
and
so
infirmed
their
strength
.
The
remnant
sent
a
Letter
to
their
Majesties
,
flattering
their
persons
,
but
enveighing
against
their
Council
,
putting
in
some
caution
for
Religion
,
and
menacing
a
hard
market
for
their
blood
,
if
sought
.
The
Princes
guessing
this
might
be
to
gain
time
,
remitted
no
whit
of
their
Military
care
,
but
made
hard
marches
,
the
weather
being
very
bad
.
At
St.
Andrews
Proclamation
was
publish'd
to
inform
the
subjects
about
the
true
state
of
the
difference
,
demonstrating
to
them
that
nothing
lesse
was
mean'd
than
Religion
most
pretended
;
how
hardly
they
were
used
,
according
to
Mr.
Knoxs's
Doctrine
,
like
Boyes
and
Gyrls
in
their
pupillage
,
the
Lords
appointing
their
Council
as
their
Guardians
.
The
Ministers
all
this
while
were
no
cyphars
,
but
knowing
their
Majesties
were
somewhat
necessitated
for
money
to
pay
their
Army
,
which
was
come
to
a
considerable
number
of
18000
men
,
thought
it
the
fittest
time
to
supplicate
for
their
meanes
.
This
piece
of
impertinency
was
easily
swallowed
among
greater
troubles
,
their
authority
being
not
such
at
this
time
as
to
stand
upon
termes
,
and
expostulate
at
length
the
Holy
Lords
of
the
Congregation
being
confiscate
and
banish'd
:
Therefore
they
fall
to
their
Prayers
for
patience
,
comfort
,
and
constancy
to
the
exil'd
,
which
Iohn
Knox
did
not
without
honorable
mention
of
them
as
the
best
part
of
the
Nobility
,
the
chief
Members
of
the
Congregation
.
But
prayers
and
tears
were
not
wont
to
be
the
onely
arms
of
this
new
Church
,
and
though
they
had
no
other
at
present
,
yet
some
course
must
be
taken
to
reduce
them
into
possession
of
such
a
power
.
This
cannot
be
done
without
the
exil'd
Lords
return
into
the
Countrey
,
for
which
their
Letters
and
missive
supplicates
not
prevailing
,
enquiry
was
made
about
the
principal
obstruction
,
the
common
current
of
the
Queens
favour
and
mercy
diffusive
enough
.
requiring
naught
of
the
most
delinquent
Subject
,
but
to
take
the
paines
to
stoop
and
taste
it
as
he
pleased
.
This
was
found
to
be
David
Rizio
Her
Secretary
,
who
by
the
excellency
of
his
parts
,
and
fidelity
of
his
service
,
in
these
many
turns
of
treachery
and
falsehood
,
had
rais'd
himself
to
an
intimacy
with
the
Queen
,
much
beyond
the
quality
o●
his
Birth
,
or
place
in
Her
Court
.
The
Brethren
had
no
such
free
accesse
to
the
retirements
of
the
Royal
Palace
as
afforded
them
an
opportunity
to
commit
such
a
rape
on
Majesty
as
this
:
nor
could
there
be
they
thought
,
a
better
hand
than
the
King
to
rend
in
sunder
the
Queens
heart
,
and
rifle
thence
,
by
prerogative
priviledge
,
the
counterfeit
of
her
dearest
servant
,
whom
they
were
resolved
to
have
thrown
out
of
the
world
,
that
she
might
never
more
have
benefit
by
his
Counsel
,
nor
content
by
his
presence
and
attendance
.
But
such
transcendent
wickedness
as
this
requires
supream
providence
to
guide
it
,
nor
can
any
miraculous
mischief
be
wrought
but
by
the
plenipotence
of
Heaven
.
To
this
purpose
a
Fast
is
proclaimed
by
the
Assembly
,
and
observed
,
No
Fast
for
strife
and
debate
,
nor
to
smite
with
the
fist
of
wickedness
;
such
a
Fast
,
no
doubt
,
as
the
Lord
had
chosen
,
to
undo
the
heavy
bu●thens
,
to
break
the
yoak
,
and
to
let
the
oppressed
go
free
.
The
Kings
head
is
daily
possessed
by
convenient
instruments
with
variety
of
jealousies
about
his
Queen
:
her
privacies
with
David
Rizio
are
suggested
as
no
arguments
of
her
matrimonial
fidelity
;
and
the
precedence
of
her
name
before
his
(
Her
paramours
invention
)
did
derogate
as
much
from
the
due
authority
of
an
Husband
,
as
from
the
Majesty
of
a
King
.
Naught
but
David
Rizio's
removal
can
make
way
for
the
future
innocency
of
the
Queen
:
and
very
just
is
it
thought
that
his
heart
blood
should
blot
out
his
hands
error
in
the
writs
.
But
bare-fac'd
murder
is
not
so
beautiful
as
to
draw
a
tender
Conscience
to
embrace
it
.
Religious
mask
may
hide
somewhat
of
the
horror
,
and
necessity
of
state
animate
,
an
adventure
to
take
it
by
the
hand
,
which
the
Lords
of
this
black
Council
weighing
with
themselves
,
propound
three
Atticles
to
the
King
.
Establishing
the
Religion
.
Recalling
the
banish'd
Lords
,
and
in
the
rear
of
these
,
The
murder
of
David
Rizio
.
His
Royal
word
might
vanish
into
ayr
,
and
be
no
standing
evidence
for
the
security
of
the
actors
,
who
presse
for
a
subscription
by
his
hand
.
The
discourse
alone
upon
this
is
enough
for
an
after-claim
to
his
consent
,
and
the
counterfeit
of
his
name
to
give
his
disavowing
Majesty
the
lie
.
Howsoever
if
his
engagement
were
any
,
the
reverence
of
a
Father
that
advised
brought
him
half
way
upon
the
misse-taken
borders
of
his
duty
,
and
old
Patrike
Ruvens
resurrection
,
who
had
for
many
moneths
been
bed-rid
:
but
skipped
very
lively
into
this
action
,
might
impose
on
his
youth
as
an
oracle
from
the
dead
.
Upon
the
Saturday
before
the
Tuesday
prefixed
by
the
Queen
for
the
attainder
of
the
Lords
,
this
cripled
assassin
in
the
company
of
the
Earl
Morton
,
Lord
Ruthuen
,
Lord
Lindsay
,
&c.
broke
into
the
presence
,
and
in
Her
Majesties
sight
who
was
then
great
with
child
,
carry
violently
away
her
servant
of
greatest
secresie
and
trust
,
and
within
a
Chamber
or
two
by
fifty
three
stroaks
with
their
whingers
or
daggers
,
murder
him
for
the
advancement
of
the
Discipline
,
which
work
now
goes
on
a
pace
,
the
Earl
Murray
and
the
banish'd
Lords
returning
to
the
Court
upon
a
pretended
summons
from
the
King
These
with
the
Murderers
sit
in
Council
,
desire
the
Queen
to
take
the
act
for
good
service
,
because
hereby
were
so
many
Noblemen
restored
.
The
poor
Queen
was
fain
to
be
silent
in
what
she
could
not
help
,
and
not
knowing
how
soon
her
own
turn
was
to
come
,
as
an
essay
of
their
intentions
,
desired
the
armed
Guard
might
be
dismissed
,
for
granting
which
the
cruel
Brethren
count
the
King
uxorious
and
simple
,
the
Earl
Murray
facile
,
and
the
other
Lords
too
inclinable
to
submit
.
Her
Majesty
though
good
natur'd
,
was
neither
stupid
,
nor
partial
when
indued
with
exercive
power
.
The
blood
of
Rizio
called
upon
her
for
Justice
more
then
the
memory
of
his
good
service
,
or
her
own
affection
did
incite
her
to
revenge
.
This
opportunity
she
took
to
summon
her
loyal
Subjects
to
Dunbar
,
whither
Her
Majesty
privately
withdrew
.
The
guilty
Lords
did
not
like
to
have
any
armed
assemblies
appear
but
their
own
,
and
accounted
it
an
entrenchment
on
their
priviledge
for
the
Queen
to
act
any
thing
but
by
their
counsel
.
At
the
same
time
and
*
place
where
they
should
have
answered
to
their
charge
,
they
convene
to
protest
against
the
Q.
proceedings
,
yet
wanting
that
which
was
wont
more
then
either
their
authority
or
innocency
to
spirit
their
dispute
,
they
disperse
themselves
to
seek
each
a
single
sanctuary
in
a
corner
.
The
King
and
Queen
in
March
were
attended
with
a
strong
Guard
to
Edenburgh
,
His
Majesty
having
before
by
Proclamation
quit
himself
,
not
onely
of
the
guilt
,
but
all
fore-knowledge
of
the
murder
(
which
is
not
inconsistent
with
what
was
said
of
an
article
propounded
,
so
they
acquainted
him
not
upon
his
refusal
with
their
designe
)
search
is
made
by
order
after
the
actors
and
partizans
,
care
being
taken
that
the
Brethren
which
so
zealously
prayed
and
fasted
for
poor
Rizio's
death
,
should
not
surfeit
at
their
leisure
on
his
blood
.
The
common
hackney-interruption
of
every
Royal
enterprize
or
process
was
the
humble
and
lamentable
complaints
of
Her
Highnesses
poor
Oratours
,
the
superintendents
and
Ministers
,
&c.
who
still
want
〈◊〉
meanes
,
and
at
this
time
,
it
may
be
a
reward
for
their
late
service
.
But
here
they
fetch
their
breath
short
,
and
cannot
lengthen
out
their
supplicate
as
heretofore
,
to
abolishing
the
Mass
,
&
antichristian
Bishops
,
the
temporal
sword
was
wanting
which
should
strengthen
their
weak
hands
,
and
confirme
their
feeble
knees
.
The
Queen
gratified
their
present
modesty
with
a
promise
,
although
the
Assembly
was
nice
in
owning
her
gracious
performance
afterward
,
for
the
writ
of
maintenance
subscribed
by
Her
Majesty
being
publickly
presented
,
they
take
time
to
deliberate
about
acceptance
of
it
from
her
hand
,
and
answer
very
gravely
,
That
it
was
their
duty
to
preach
to
the
people
the
Word
of
God
truly
and
sincerely
,
and
to
crave
of
the
auditors
the
things
that
were
necessary
for
their
sustentation
,
as
of
duty
the
Pastours
might
justly
crave
of
their
flock
;
and
further
it
became
them
not
to
have
any
care
.
Which
plain
contradiction
can
ad●mit
of
no
other
Salve
but
this
.
That
they
wanted
not
the
subsistence
,
for
which
they
so
frequently
and
importunately
petition'd
,
nor
had
they
any
desire
to
be
answered
by
a
grant
;
but
this
colourable
pretence
they
could
ever
make
use
of
to
usher
in
their
more
peevish
demands
,
upon
denial
whereof
,
or
(
which
they
made
ever
equivalent
)
delay
,
the
publick
commiseration
of
their
poverty
who
laboured
in
the
Gospel
melted
the
peoples
loyalty
into
a
tumult
.
About
this
time
comes
matter
of
joy
for
all
,
though
upon
several
grounds
,
and
different
hopes
of
advantage
to
be
made
by
it
,
the
birth
of
a
Prince
,
of
whom
if
the
Brethren
can
get
the
godly
education
,
and
mold
the
new
d●scipline
into
his
creed
,
there
can
be
Gospel
enough
beside
Knox's
Book
against
the
Empire
of
Women
,
or
else
club
law
,
which
is
better
to
prevail
with
the
Queen
for
a
surrender
of
the
Crown
and
Scepter
into
his
hand
.
In
reference
hereunto
,
after
thanks
and
praises
,
are
made
many
supplications
to
God
,
and
wishes
(
more
powerfull
perswasions
being
wanting
)
that
he
might
be
Baptized
according
to
the
manner
of
the
Reformed
Churches
in
the
Realm
.
But
the
Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
is
thought
to
have
a
more
authentick
mission
then
the
Brethren
,
and
the
Sacrament
efficacious
from
his
hand
though
none
but
boyes
could
be
got
to
bear
torches
at
the
solemnitie
of
the
Christening
.
This
check
to
the
Discipline
seemed
ominous
,
and
if
the
future
removes
in
the
Princes
education
should
be
answerable
,
the
Brethren
saw
they
might
be
mated
in
the
end
.
The
King
had
either
taken
no
impression
by
their
counsel
about
Rizio
,
or
retain'd
very
little
of
it
after
his
dispatch
.
He
had
been
so
uxorious
as
to
put
the
bloody
Lords
to
shift
for
themselves
,
and
being
given
to
his
sports
might
possibly
leave
the
yong
child
wholly
to
the
Queens
disposal
;
at
the
best
he
was
but
a
Cypher
in
Religion
,
and
fill'd
up
the
room
of
a
more
significant
figure
,
a
Regent
,
or
Protector
of
the
Prince
.
The
strong
reports
of
his
engagement
against
Rizio
hath
wrought
a
visible
suspicion
in
the
Queen
,
and
that
will
be
enough
to
draw
a
popular
jealousie
upon
her self
,
though
Murray
and
his
complices
be
the
true
politick
Assassins
that
act
a
second
Trajedy
in
the
murder
of
the
King
.
Howsoever
this
bloody
businesse
was
contrived
and
executed
,
the
Corps
of
the
murder'd
King
was
thrown
into
a
Garden
,
and
one
of
his
Servants
strangled
with
him
,
the
house
where
he
lay
in
Edenburgh
blown
up
in
triumph
for
the
designe
taking
effect
,
or
as
a
signal
to
the
Brethren
to
blaspheme
God
by
their
midnight
Thanksgiving
.
Now
was
the
poor
Queen
once
again
reduced
to
her
solitude
,
without
the
comfort
or
assistance
of
a
Husband
,
in
greater
haz●rd
of
her
peace
and
security
then
ever
by
what
she
foresaw
would
be
act●d
against
her
by
the
Reformers
under
the
umbrage
of
her
Son
.
To
prevent
what
she
well
could
of
this
mischief
she
casts
her self
upon
the
despe●ate
adventure
of
a
sudden
marriage
.
The
experience
she
had
of
Earl
Bothwels
trust
,
and
the
clear
opinion
the
world
had
of
his
courage
led
her
nuptial
affection
unto
his
comely
person
by
the
hand
.
The
intended
divorce
between
the
Earl
and
his
Lady
upon
the
lawfull
ground
of
too
near
consanguinity
would
assuredly
set
him
at
liberty
for
her
purpose
,
and
Her
Majestie
thought
Religion
as
well
as
policy
might
be
had
to
justifie
his
help
,
being
then
at
leisure
,
in
supporting
of
a
Crown
,
she
presum'd
on
her
innocency
to
quit
her
from
the
slander
of
the
Brethren
about
her
former
familiarity
with
the
Earl
,
and
upon
the
justice
of
the
Law
to
wash
his
hands
in
the
sight
of
the
world
from
the
murder
of
the
King
.
What
other
inevitable
difficulty
,
she
must
encounter
,
she
left
to
providence
and
the
fortune
of
war
.
And
if
by
all
the
faire
meanes
to
be
used
the
precise
mouths
could
not
be
stopt
from
shooting
bitter
words
,
and
sharp
arrows
against
her
person
or
government
,
she
saw
no
way
left
but
to
hold
their
hands
,
and
●ut
their
venemous
tongues
out
with
the
Sword
.
But
the
Brethren
were
never
wont
to
be
backward
,
to
raise
a
Rebellion
in
their
own
defense
as
they
call'd
it
,
and
much
more
unlikely
is
it
they
should
be
now
when
a
young
Prince
was
committed
by
Heaven
unto
their
charge
.
The
fountain-head
for
sedition
was
most
commonly
at
Edenburgh
,
which
now
had
for
a
Conduit
Iohn
Craig
the
Minister
,
who
declaimed
fiercely
against
the
divorce
and
marriage
,
and
as
boldly
as
could
be
maintain'd
his
discourse
when
he
was
question'd
for
it
before
the
Council
.
Hence
tumults
beginning
,
the
Queen
thought
to
seize
the
Castle
of
Edenburgh
to
suppresse
them
,
which
she
demands
of
the
old
Earl
of
Marre
,
who
,
though
sick
at
Sterling
▪
advis'd
by
his
Confessours
would
make
no
surrende●
,
and
exchange
he
would
for
no
les●
then
the
person
of
the
Prince
.
The
condition
was
hard
,
●et
at
length
consented
to
by
the
Queen
,
who
might
have
saved
some
part
of
her
future
trouble
it
may
be
her
head
,
if
when
she
kissed
and
shook
hands
with
her
Babe
,
she
had
taken
off
her
Crown
,
and
thrown
it
into
the
cradle
,
for
now
we
hear
of
no
more
Supplicates
,
and
humble
addresses
to
her
;
they
had
now
a
Royal
Infant
in
their
hands
,
whom
as
young
as
he
was
,
they
had
taught
to
speak
far
better
language
then
his
Mother
,
and
to
act
(
with
good
authority
and
judgement
no
question
)
their
hearts
desire
in
behalf
of
the
D●scipline
.
The
Queen
may
now
proclaim
what
she
please
,
as
she
did
,
they
say
,
large
favours
towards
the
poor
Protestants
,
she
mistakes
her self
,
they
are
no
such
men
as
mean
to
live
on
her
almes
,
having
got
her
onely
jewel
in
possession
,
and
will
have
very
shortly
her
Crown
;
but
they
had
not
hands
enough
yet
to
remove
it
,
being
like
a
nail
fastened
in
a
sure
place
of
Female
magnanimity
,
and
innocency
,
and
the
Throne
had
by
late
marriage
acquir'd
a
stout
Champion
to
protect
it
;
nothing
now
but
sl●under
and
violence
can
get
it
into
their
power
,
and
they
must
be
sure
to
coyn
the
former
of
good
mettal
,
whereby
to
purchase
an
effectual
assistance
in
the
latter
.
They
set
up
shop
at
Sterlin
,
and
hammer
out
a
conceit
that
the
Queen
and
Earl
of
Bothwell
had
an
undoubted
resolution
to
murder
the
young
Prince
,
and
next
a
band
or
covenant
to
protect
him
.
But
Argile
one
of
the
banded
Lords
,
could
not
sleep
well
with
this
shackle
about
his
Conscience
,
and
the
next
day
reveals
the
conspiracy
to
the
Queen
.
She
hath
many
of
the
Lords
that
adhere
to
her
,
&
a
daily
access
of
strength
from
the
common
people
But
Her
Majestie
makes
first
approaches
by
her
goodness
▪
before
she
moves
toward
the
conspirators
with
her
power
.
Having
proclaimed
a
Grant
of
their
demands
for
Religion
,
she
doth
the
like
to
the
other
Article
of
policy
,
and
passeth
her
Royal
promise
to
be
hereafter
guided
by
the
advice
of
her
Nobles
.
This
they
thought
was
to
direct
a
way
to
Sterlin
,
where
having
yeilded
all
,
it
might
be
taken
for
reason
or
a
civil
favour
to
gratifie
her
with
the
restitution
of
her
Son
.
To
intercept
her
in
this
hast
they
besiege
Her
Majestie
and
the
Earl
at
Borthwike
Castle
,
where
nothing
was
wanting
to
the
surprisal
of
their
persons
but
the
Earl
of
Athols
men
to
stop
a
passe
,
by
which
they
both
escaped
to
Dunbar
.
The
Rebells
thus
defeated
in
their
plot
,
make
what
hast
they
can
to
Edenburgh
,
where
they
found
no
hard
entrance
into
the
City
,
and
they
pretended
to
some
underhand
favour
from
Balfour
Governour
of
the
Castle
;
yet
as
guilt
is
prone
to
suspicions
and
fears
,
they
confide
not
so
much
in
their
friends
or
strength
,
but
that
divided
in
their
counsels
the
prevailing
party
inclin'd
to
a
disbanding
and
shifting
for
themselves
;
but
the
Queens
Army
drawing
near
,
despair
of
mercy
made
them
resolute
,
and
united
their
factions
to
hazard
all
at
once
.
Musselburgh
field
was
the
place
where
both
Armies
met
,
and
being
ready
to
joyn
battail
▪
Mon.
Croke
the
French
Agent
unhappily
interposeth
for
a
Treaty
;
gets
the
Queen
to
promise
pardon
,
and
then
offers
it
in
her
name
to
the
Lords
of
the
conspiracy
;
they
had
no
mind
to
take
her
word
,
nor
his
,
and
the
Earl
of
Glencarn
very
majestickly
told
him
,
They
came
not
thither
to
take
,
but
to
give
pardon
at
their
pleasure
.
The
Queens
yeilding
to
this
parly
put
a
jealousie
into
her
Army
that
she
had
no
great
faith
in
the
good
fortune
of
the
Battail
,
and
Glencarns
bold
answer
spake
a
too
fixed
resolution
in
their
enemies
.
This
,
and
some
treachery
that
was
acted
in
the
dark
,
made
a
great
party
declare
against
the
business
for
which
they
came
into
the
field
.
The
Queens
passion
,
running
too
quick
a
division
upon
intreaties
and
menaces
,
evidenc'd
to
them
the
distraction
of
her
m●nd
,
which
at
length
brought
her
to
a
precipice
,
&
threw
her
into
a
ruine
,
She
sends
to
treat
personally
wth
the
L.
Kirkaldie
of
Grange
,
with
whom
he
holds
a
discourse
while
the
Earl
Bothwell
of
late
made
Duke
of
Orkney
was
out
of
present
danger
.
Afterward
Her
Majesty
goeth
with
him
to
the
Rebels
,
by
whom
she
was
at
first
received
with
as
much
reverence
as
hypocrisie
could
counterfeit
,
which
being
only
a
false
paint
upon
the
van
or
front
of
the
Army
,
when
she
had
made
a
little
farther
entrance
,
she
heard
a
loud
cry
,
Burn
the
Strumpet
,
and
Parricide
,
Burn
the
Strumpet
and
Parricide
,
This
courtesie
pursued
her
untill
she
was
welcom'd
by
a
Pageant
,
a
fair
banner
displayed
,
wherein
was
pictur'd
K.
Henry
,
(
the
Lord
Darley
)
that
was
dead
,
and
a
little
Infant
(
the
young
Prince
)
at
his
Prayers
to
God
for
revenge
upon
the
murderer
.
This
was
carried
by
two
Soldiers
between
two
Spears
,
and
which
way
soever
the
Queen
turn'd
her
face
.
as
maliciously
as
might
be
,
this
was
presented
to
her
.
When
the
poor
innocent
Lady
fainted
not
under
the
burden
of
her
guilt
,
but
impatience
of
this
most
unchristian
reproach
,
they
held
her
upon
her
horse
,
and
the
banner
still
displayed
on
purpose
it
may
be
(
there
being
more
yet
undiscovered
of
the
designe
)
to
affright
her
Royal
Soul
into
her
body
,
if
it
attempted
to
spring
out
.
Being
somewhat
recovered
,
they
hurrey
her
toward
Edenburgh
,
but
her
faintness
of
spirit
,
after
the
late
torture
,
declining
so
great
hast
,
a
common
Souldier
was
instructed
to
cry
out
,
You
linger
to
no
purpose
;
The
Hamiltons
are
not
at
hand
here
for
your
rescue
.
When
they
had
brought
her
to
the
City
,
they
thrust
her
into
an
Inne
,
where
if
she
look't
but
out
at
window
,
to
weep
at
that
liberty
,
as
the
tears
trickled
down
with
the
sad
sound
of
her
sighs
,
&
the
pitty
of
some
tender
hearted
people
ascended
in
a
whisper
,
she
was
sure
to
have
that
cursed
banner
a
fresh
presented
,
which
forced
her
to
this
choice
,
a
perpetual
rack
,
or
close
imprisonment
,
yet
the
Rebell●
fearing
the
effects
of
such
still
conference
between
a
distressed
Queen
,
and
her
commiserating
subjects
,
post
her
the
next
day
to
a
Castle
in
the
Isle
of
Lochlevin
▪
where
a
proud
harlot
insults
and
tra●ples
upon
her
calamitous
person
,
while
her
ambitious
bastard
playes
the
part
of
a
pretender
to
the
Crown
.
And
now
it
was
high
time
for
the
godly
Ministers
to
meet
in
an
assembly
,
and
with
the
Seal
of
the
Spirit
make
good
all
these
proceedings
;
which
they
did
,
and
farther
service
,
for
the
Hamiltons
had
got
a
strong
party
of
the
Nobles
,
and
as
great
an
Army
as
the
Brethren
.
To
these
and
to
diverse
N●utrals
were
sent
several
conscientious
letters
from
the
Cl●rgie
,
to
summon
them
in
for
the
setling
of
Gods
true
worship
in
the
Church
,
beside
a
spiritual
quaternion
of
Iohn
Knox
▪
Dowglas
,
Row
,
and
Craig
are
deputed
Commissioners
with
instructions
to
like
purpose
,
in
expectation
of
whose
return
was
the
Assembly
prorogued
.
But
so
much
time
was
lost
,
for
neither
soothing
Letters
,
nor
supling
language
could
prevail
for
their
company
.
This
summons
,
though
rejected
,
was
sufficient
to
authoriz●
the
faction
at
Edenburgh
,
to
combine
in
the
maintenance
of
some
such
Articles
as
these
.
That
all
crimes
and
offences
against
God
should
be
punish'd
according
to
Gods
word
,
&c.
but
they
make
no
particular
mention
,
as
that
doth
,
of
Witchcraft
and
Rebellion
.
That
they
would
protect
the
young
Prince
,
against
all
violence
,
(
his
Imprisonment
at
present
they
counted
none
.
)
That
he
should
be
committed
to
the
care
of
four
wise
and
godly
men
.
The
first
time
,
I
have
heard
of
a
Clerical
Assembly
chusing
Lords
Protectors
,
That
they
would
set
up
and
further
the
true
worship
of
God
,
—
and
all
that
may
concern
the
purity
of
Religion
,
and
life
.
And
for
this
to
take
arms
if
need
require
.
They
should
have
added
,
Where
need
requires
another
pretense
,
they
would
take
that
for
taking
arms
,
or
if
it
please
them
,
take
arms
without
any
.
That
all
Princes
and
Kings
hereafter
in
this
Realm
before
their
Coronation
shall
take
Oath
to
maintain
the
true
Religion
,
which
if
they
do
,
to
be
sure
theirs
is
out
of
protection
.
This
being
done
,
the
Assembly
brake
up
.
But
all
this
while
they
were
troubled
how
to
r●d
their
hands
of
the
Queen
,
who
,
though
a
prisoner
,
had
yet
such
authority
at
liberty
as
prevented
the
Brethren
from
being
absolute
in
their
power
.
In
consultation
about
her
,
some
were
for
a
conditional
restitution
,
others
for
a
legal
Tryal
,
deposition
,
and
condemnation
to
perpetual
imprisonment
;
but
Knox
and
the
meek-sp●rited
Assembly-men
,
upon
some
holy
inspiration
publish'd
this
mercifull
censure
in
their
Pulpits
,
To
have
her
divested
of
Royal
authority
and
executed
,
which
took
effect
in
the
end
,
although
not
in
so
short
a
time
,
nor
by
the
same
hands
they
then
hastily
desired
.
Queen
Elizabeth
of
England
,
whose
Royal
dignity
did
rather
cherish
her
in
,
then
exempt
her
from
,
an
eager
emulation
,
which
is
very
inseperable
,
(
in
some
cases
happily
incident
)
to
her
Sex
,
partly
by
that
,
and
partly
upon
a
conscientious
care
to
preserve
and
enlarge
what
is
call'd
in
the
Mass
,
the
Protestant
Religion
,
the
sincerity
of
which
was
ever
pretended
,
but
never
mean'd
nor
practis'd
by
the
Presbytery
in
Scotland
;
and
farther
upon
the
jealousie
she
had
of
the
great
reputation
,
and
growing
power
of
her
successor
,
had
from
time
to
time
recruited
the
strength
,
and
supported
the
fainting
spirits
of
that
faction
;
yet
at
such
opportunities
,
and
upon
such
politick
advantages
,
as
gave
all
her
actions
the
countenance
of
justice
,
and
her self
the
honour
of
being
as
bitter
to
theirs
:
but
when
by
the
help
of
her
Sword
they
had
cut
out
their
way
,
and
got
the
Royal
Scepter
in
their
reach
,
like
perfidious
Rebells
,
ungratefull
and
cruel
Murderers
,
as
she
call'd
them
,
they
turn'd
the
point
upon
her self
,
would
stand
no
more
to
the
courtesie
of
her
imperious
mediation
;
denyed
her
Ambassador
accesse
to
their
Queen
,
and
sent
him
back
with
a
French
Proverb
in
his
mouth
,
Il
perd
le
jeu
,
qui
la
isse
,
la
partie
,
to
bid
her
have
a
care
to
continue
a
Friend
to
their
party
,
lest
having
got
the
fore-game
for
them
,
she
lose
an
after-game
,
more
considerable
,
when
she
playes
it
for
her self
.
In
the
interim
the
Lords
Lindsey
and
Ruthuen
were
sent
to
the
Queen
to
have
two
Wri●s
signed
;
one
for
the
renunciation
of
the
Crown
and
Royal
dignity
;
the
other
to
ordain
the
Earl
of
Murray
Regent
▪
during
the
Princes
minority
.
They
having
by
their
hard
usage
brought
upon
Her
Majesty
some
infirmity
of
body
,
did
her
the
courtesie
to
put
her
in
mind
of
that
as
a
fair
pretense
,
why
she
gave
up
her
Crown
and
Government
,
but
to
ballance
that
,
they
threatned
her
with
Death
if
she
refused
.
Whether
Her
Majesty
set
her
Hand
or
no
,
is
not
so
certain
,
as
that
it
was
proclaim'd
she
had
,
at
the
Market-cross
of
Edenburgh
;
and
soon
after
the
young
Prince
Crowned
King
at
Sterlin
,
where
Iohn
Knox
sanctified
his
inauguration
with
a
Sermon
,
and
Earl
Morton
,
one
of
them
that
kill'd
his
Father
,
with
Lord
Hume
that
mean'd
as
much
unto
his
Mother
,
when
he
besieged
her
in
Borthwike
Castle
,
took
the
Oath
in
his
behalf
,
That
he
should
constantly
live
in
the
profession
of
the
true
Religion
,
and
maintain
it
,
&c.
It
's
no
matter
whether
the
King
knows
it
to
be
true
or
false
he
swears
to
.
The
next
solemnity
was
to
proclaim
the
Regent
,
who
was
returned
out
of
France
,
whither
he
had
cunningly
diverted
to
avoid
the
discovery
about
the
murther
of
the
King
,
and
his
personal
appearance
in
the
deposit●on
of
the
Queen
.
After
eleven
moneths
Imprisonment
(
in
all
which
time
she
was
not
once
permitted
the
sight
of
her
Son
,
which
she
earnestly
desired
,
)
Her
Majesty
by
the
help
of
George
Douglas
,
Broth●r
to
the
Regent
,
makes
an
escape
out
of
the
Castle
,
and
Island
of
Lochlevin
,
and
within
ten
dayes
got
an
handsome
Army
,
and
fought
a
Battail
for
the
recovery
of
her
right
;
but
her
Friends
that
were
stronger
in
their
affections
then
arms
,
were
unfortunately
dispersed
,
and
her self
narrowly
escaped
to
the
borders
of
England
.
Afterward
,
having
sent
a
Letter
to
Queen
Elizabeth
to
crave
protection
in
her
Kingdom
,
as
apprehending
some
danger
in
her
stay
where
she
was
,
prevented
the
Queens
answer
by
her
coming
to
Carliste
.
What
passed
before
Queen
Elizabeths
Commissioners
at
York
and
herself
at
London
,
whither
the
Regent
came
,
being
only
a
discussion
of
the
Scotch
factions
on
all
sides
,
and
including
title
of
the
Clericall
proceedings
,
I
purposely
omit
.
The
Regent
being
returned
into
Scotland
,
meets
with
new
commotions
,
rais'd
by
the
opportunity
of
his
absence
;
and
afterward
was
overtaken
by
that
which
pleas'd
him
worse
:
three
desires
from
Queen
Elizabeth
in
behalf
of
the
banished
Queen
.
1.
That
she
might
be
restored
to
her
former
Authority
,
and
place
.
Or
,
2.
That
she
might
be
joynt
Regent
with
her
Son
,
aad
her
Name
as
well
as
his
in
all
publick
Acts
and
Writings
,
yet
so
as
Murray
should
bear
all
the
sway
untill
the
King
came
to
seventeen
years
of
age
:
Or
,
3.
That
,
if
the
Queen
of
Scots
liked
of
it
,
she
might
enjoy
her
peace
in
a
private
condition
,
and
with
it
what
honour
should
not
be
prejudiciall
to
the
Royal
dignity
of
the
King
▪
Beside
,
the
Queen
of
Scots
sent
〈◊〉
Letter
to
demand
a
fair
judicial
hea●ring
about
the
businesse
of
her
marriage
with
Earl
Bothwell
,
that
if
〈◊〉
were
found
illegal
,
she
might
have
the
benefit
of
a
divorce
,
and
be
qui●
of
that
engagement
.
These
were
referred
to
a
Parliament
at
Perth
,
where
the
last
of
Queen
Elizabeths
propositions
were
yeilded
to
,
upon
hopes
to
get
her
within
the
limits
of
their
power
,
when
she
could
have
no
pretense
to
raise
a
party
,
being
divested
of
all
her
Royalties
,
and
to
be
acknowledged
as
no
other
then
a
private
person
,
and
subject
to
the
rigor
of
their
Laws
,
by
which
within
a
very
short
time
she
might
be
reduced
to
her
former
condition
in
the
Castle
of
Lochlevin
.
To
the
Queen
of
Scots
Letter
they
make
exceptions
upon
her
assuming
the
title
of
Queen
,
&c.
and
when
offer
was
made
that
that
should
be
amended
,
and
urged
as
a
strange
Paradox
that
they
which
had
so
much
pressed
the
illegality
and
impiety
of
that
marriage
,
would
not
now
ye●ld
unto
a
cognizance
of
the
businesse
;
they
made
many
frivilous
demurs
,
as
to
have
60
dayes
given
for
the
summons
of
Earl
Bothwell
,
who
was
now
in
Denmark
▪
&c.
and
at
last
spake
plainly
,
that
they
would
have
her
send
to
the
Danish
King
to
take
his
Head
off
,
and
then
she
was
at
liberty
to
marry
whom
she
pleased
.
Queen
Elizabeth
not
liking
the
Perth
Parliaments
answer
,
nor
the
young
Messenger
that
brought
it
,
they
call'd
another
at
Sterlin
,
and
from
thence
sent
Pelkarn
with
a
subtile
enlargement
about
▪
their
declining
the
two
former
of
her
three
Propositions
;
but
because
they
saw
so
long
as
the
exil'd
Queen
had
the
countenance
of
Queen
Elizabeth
,
she
had
oppo●tunity
to
encourage
,
and
some
means
to
assist
their
enemies
,
which
now
began
to
be
somewhat
potent
;
they
take
a
sure
way
,
to
set
the
two
Queens
at
variance
by
severall
suggestions
,
wherein
what
was
true
,
had
been
done
by
Murray's
advice
,
if
not
fi●st
procurement
,
the
private
overture
of
a
Marriage
between
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
and
the
Duke
of
Norfolk
:
and
what
was
false
,
they
were
sure
would
incense
Queen
Elizabeth
,
and
prevent
all
possibility
of
farther
mischief
from
the
South
▪
Of
this
nature
was
That
she
had
passed
away
to
the
D.
of
Andyn
her
right
to
the
Crown
of
England
,
That
She
and
the
Duke
of
Norfolke
intended
to
cut
off
the
present
Royall
poss●ssours
of
both
Kingdomes
,
which
plot●
must
be
discoverd
by
providence
just
at
Pelcarnes
coming
to
the
English
Court
,
whereupon
the
Queen
and
Duke
were
presently
secured
.
After
this
the
Regent
Murray
goes
on
with
less
opposition
,
and
better
success
in
Scotland
,
ye●
in
the
midst
of
his
victories
was
rewarded
for
his
murders
,
rebellions
and
falsehood
,
being
shot
at
Lithgow
in
the
belly
upon
a
private
revenge
,
and
so
prevented
of
dispatching
the
young
Prince
,
which
may
be
very
fairly
guessed
by
his
proceedings
to
be
intended
,
his
Mother
boasting
her self
to
have
been
the
Wife
,
not
the
Harlot
of
Iames
the
fifth
,
and
so
this
her
son
the
lawfull
inheritor
of
the
Crown
.
The
holy
Brethren
would
fain
had
Murray
cannoniz'd
for
a
Saint
and
Martyr
in
the
cause
,
and
his
bloud
reveng'd
they
car'd
not
upon
whom
,
so
any
of
the
Queens
dutifull
Subjests
might
be
cut
off
.
To
bring
such
upon
tryal
as
stood
most
in
their
way
,
were
many
popular
supplicates
presented
,
and
what
reason
was
rendred
for
deferring
the
enquiry
,
at
least
till
the
Assizes
,
if
not
rather
till
the
next
Assembly
in
May
,
they
either
take
for
a
close
compliance
of
their
Peers
with
the
Queens
,
or
an
impolitick
yielding
advantage
to
their
enemies
.
At
length
some
of
the
wisest
began
to
put
in
questions
by
what
authority
they
could
proceed
to
this
or
any
other
execution
of
Laws
,
the
Queen
being
deposed
,
the
King
in
his
non-age
,
and
no
legal
establishment
to
be
made
of
a
successor
to
Murray
in
his
Regency
of
the
Kingdome
.
Fain
would
they
have
made
use
of
an
old
by
grant
extorted
from
the
Queen
,
but
that
they
found
null
by
the
former
election
of
Murray
,
and
if
now
taken
up
for
authentick
,
might
be
thought
a
recalling
her
Majesties
authority
from
the
dead
.
This
not
holding
good
,
they
leave
all
their
sawcy
French
Proverbs
behind
them
,
and
come
fawning
upon
Queen
Elizabeth
in
English
;
she
denies
them
as
well
advice
as
assistance
,
having
before
made
plausible
promises
of
both
to
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
though
her
prisoner
,
The
Rebe●l●
were
sensible
what
ground
the
Qu●ens
party
daily
got
by
their
Anarchy
,
&
though
their
necessities
hastened
them
toward
a
conclusion
of
somewhat
,
yet
,
not
knowing
what
,
they
were
to
seek
by
what
means
,
and
in
what
method
to
effect
it
.
Queen
Elizabeth
,
who
seem'd
not
full●
satisfied
with
the
thing
,
must
not
be
disgusted
by
the
person
.
The
Earl
of
Lenox
,
the
young
King's
Grandfather
is
pitcht
on
for
several
reasons
looking
that
way
;
and
first
upon
some
Assembly
revelation
he
was
chosen
an
Interrex
or
Interloping
King
,
which
soon
after
by
some
divine
counter-light
was
discovered
to
be
a
monster
in
Government
,
suspected
for
Saturnes
unnatural
stomack
,
that
might
possibly
devoure
the
young
King
and
Iesus
Christs
Scepter
to
boot
,
which
the
Presbytery
had
given
him
to
play
with
in
his
hand
.
To
avoid
this
danger
they
divest
him
of
his
intercalary
Kingship
,
and
having
no
law
upon
earth
to
impower
them
,
they
furnish
him
with
a
Regency
from
heaven
.
And
now
in
his
time
no
question
all
Parliamentary
as
well
as
Assembly
authority
may
plead
to
be
by
divine
right
,
and
their
proceedings
are
justified
by
this
extraordinary
providence
of
God
.
Upon
this
Patent
the
new
Regent
reforms
what
he
could
by
the
sword
,
according
to
the
true
sense
of
the
Discipline
.
The
poor
captive
Queen
in
compliance
with
the
principles
of
nature
,
and
likewise
in
discharge
of
her
civil
duty
(
who
had
the
trust
though
not
possession
of
a
Kingdome
)
by
submisse
,
yet
enough
Majestick
,
requests
in
England
;
by
a
mediation
from
France
and
Spain
,
agitates
what
she
can
for
her
liberty
,
and
this
for
stopping
farther
effusion
of
Christian
bloud
in
her
Countrey
,
and
preventing
the
progresse
of
oppressive
tyranny
over
her
party
.
Queen
Elizabeth
sensible
of
these
unchristian
proceedings
,
by
her
arbitrary
power
sometimes
orders
a
truce
between
the
Scots
,
gives
fair
answers
as
well
to
her
prisoner
as
forein
Ambasdours
that
interceded
for
her
:
adviseth
with
her
Council
,
Wherein
some
were
mis
lead
by
too
facile
credulity
of
false
informations
from
the
North
;
others
,
not
improbably
,
corrupted
;
all
too
much
ad●cted
to
their
own
interests
,
and
an
overweening
solicitude
about
the
peace
and
security
of
England
.
This
begat
an
overture
too
high
and
imperious
for
a
magnanimous
free-born
Princesse
to
yield
to
;
put
new
thoughts
and
designs
into
the
Pope
,
Spaniard
,
and
French
;
enlarged
the
breach
between
her
English
Subjects
,
(
for
they
had
been
divided
and
some
unsatisfied
in
the
proceedings
relating
to
the
Scotch
Queen
)
reviv'd
and
multiplied
conspiracies
at
home
.
Into
all
these
did
the
northwind
blow
the
sparkles
of
the
Disciplinarian
Rebellion
,
which
more
or
less
encreased
the
flame
where
they
lighted
,
if
upon
matter
ready
to
fire
with
a
touch
.
Queen
Elizabeth
finding
her self
environ'd
with
danger
,
and
apprehending
no
possible
security
but
in
a
perfect
composure
of
the
Scotch
differences
,
in
order
to
it
calls
upon
the
Presbyterian
division
for
a
new
account
about
the
deposition
of
their
Queen
.
They
exhibit
a
large
remonstrance
upon
it
,
stuffed
with
so
much
pride
and
barbarous
insolence
,
as
left
no
place
for
religion
,
reason
,
or
law
,
although
they
were
great
pretenders
to
the
last
,
pleading
Ancient
priviledge
of
the
Scotch
peoples
superiority
to
their
Prince
.
This
(
for
which
their
Reformed
Brethren
may
thank
them
)
they
fortified
with
Calvins
authority
,
and
in
some
cases
enlarged
it
to
imprisoning
and
deposing
Kings
what
,
or
wheresoever
.
They
not
onely
justified
their
censure
but
magnified
their
own
lenity
to
their
Queen
,
as
to
the
pa●doning
of
her
life
,
to
the
succession
of
her
son
,
who
being
in
their
power
,
and
standing
onely
by
their
pleasure
,
no
marvail
if
in
this
years
Assembly
and
Parliament
,
all
Acts
and
Statutes
made
before
by
him
and
his
Predecessors
annext
the
freedom
and
liberty
of
the
true
Kirk
of
God
,
a●e
ratified
by
his
name
,
whenas
yet
he
could
not
superscribe
them
with
his
hand
.
Queen
Elizabeth
saw
and
disliked
the
drifts
of
these
Antimonarchical
maxims
and
practises
,
yet
not
resolute
enough
to
trust
providence
with
the
preservation
of
her
person
.
At
the
next
meeting
in
the
Lord
Keepers
House
,
persists
in
one
of
her
principal
demands
from
the
Queen
of
Scots
Commissioners
to
have
,
beside
the
delivery
up
of
two
strong
Castles
,
the
Duke
of
Castle
Herault
,
the
Earles
of
Huntl●y
,
Argile
,
Humes
,
H●ris
,
&c.
to
be
Pledges
or
Hostages
for
the
good
behaviour
of
their
Queen
.
This
was
to
change
one
pri●oner
for
more
,
to
disarm
the
Scotch
Queen
and
turn
her
into
a
wilderness
of
wolves
,
or
more
savage
beasts
,
ready
every
minute
to
devour
her
.
The
Bishop
of
Ross
and
her
other
Delegates
,
lookt
over
Queen
Elizabeths
shoulder
and
her
Councils
to
see
the
black
Assembly
men
vying
hard
for
the
honour
of
this
fatal
invention
;
returned
a
modest
answer
to
Her
Majesty
,
,
That
this
could
not
be
yielded
in
Christian
prudence
,
nor
mercy
to
their
miserable
Mistresse
,
wch
was
repelled
by
the
L.
Keeper
with
that
sharp
reply
,
which
,
if
any
thing
,
cut
off
all
mutual
confidence
in
the
Queens
,
That
the
Kingdome
,
Princes
,
Nobles
,
Castles
,
and
what
soever
else
was
valuable
in
Scotland
,
could
be
no
considerable
pledge
for
the
security
of
England
.
While
matters
were
thus
carried
on
there
,
both
parties
in
Scotland
by
Queen
Elizabeths
order
,
enter
into
a
truce
which
the
Disciplinarians
kept
according
to
the
articles
of
their
faith
,
putting
to
the
sword
what
persons
of
quality
they
wished
out
of
the
way
,
wherein
the
murder
of
their
late
King
,
and
a
feigned
design
to
poison
this
now
in
being
,
served
them
very
plausibly
for
a
disguise
;
They
seized
upon
what
Castles
and
Forts
they
could
get
by
fraud
or
stratagem
,
without
any
great
noise
of
armes
;
among
the
rest
,
that
on
Dunbriton
frith
,
where
the
fury
of
the
meaner
sort
being
slacked
by
customary
murder
,
the
wrath
of
the
Regent
and
his
sanguinary
Chaplains
must
have
a
solemn
holy
sacrifice
to
appease
it
,
which
was
the
Archbishop
of
St.
Andrews
,
whom
they
found
in
that
Castle
.
He
craved
the
ordinary
justice
of
the
law
,
but
the
fear
of
Queen
Elizabeths
mediatory
Letters
,
or
any
other
prevalent
possibility
to
save
him
,
carried
him
the
shorest
way
by
a
Council
of
war
,
to
be
,
as
he
was
,
dispatched
at
the
Gallows
.
But
divine
vengeance
not
●ong
after
found
the
Regent
out
at
Sterlin
,
sitting
secure
,
as
he
thought
,
in
his
Parliament
of
Rebolls
,
where
by
the
hands
of
some
on
the
Queens
party
,
he
paid
the
due
debt
of
his
bloud
to
the
innocence
of
that
holy
Martyr
whom
he
murder'd
.
And
now
the
good
Brethren
haing
divers
months
since
,
out
stript
the
rebellious
precedents
of
their
ancestors
,
by
leaping
over
the
letter
,
and
all
pretentions
of
Law
and
authority
in
the
election
of
their
Regent
,
find
themselves
safe
on
this
side
all
scrupulous
trouble
,
and
so
without
any
more
addresses
into
England
,
or
home
disputes
about
stating
their
power
,
commit
their
cause
to
the
protection
of
Iohn
Erskin
Earl
of
Marre
,
whose
first
ominous
repulse
before
Edenburgh
,
and
mild
temper
inclining
toward
a
composure
,
together
with
his
impardonable
endeavours
to
bring
in
again
Archbishops
and
Bishops
,
drew
such
swarms
of
contentious
Presbyters
about
him
,
that
after
thirteen
moneths
strugling
with
his
own
Conscience
and
their
unconscientious
proceedings
,
he
dyed
through
extremity
of
grief
.
In
this
time
,
by
the
good
managing
of
the
Brethren
,
a
proposition
was
made
by
the
Members
of
Parliament
in
England
,
That
if
the
Queen
of
Scots
acted
any
thing
against
the
known
Laws
of
the
Land
,
upon
advantage
given
by
her
contract
of
marriage
with
the
Duke
of
Norfolk
,
she
should
be
proceeded
against
as
a
Wife
to
one
of
the
Peers
of
the
Realm
.
But
for
Royal
Majesties
sake
Queen
Elizabeth
interposeth
by
her
power
,
and
would
not
suffer
it
to
be
put
to
the
Vote
of
the
House
,
or
at
least
not
enacted
as
a
Law
.
After
all
this
jugling
and
under-hand
contrivance
,
the
Disciplinarian
faction
in
Scotland
perceiving
trouble
and
hazard
increasing
upon
them
at
home
,
and
potent
enemies
multiplying
abroad
,
resolve
now
to
cut
up
root
and
branch
of
all
that
hindred
the
growth
of
their
dominion
,
and
having
but
blunt
instruments
in
Scotland
,
make
bold
with
the
highest
authority
,
and
sharpest
ax
of
England
to
effect
it
,
wherein
as
part
of
the
work
is
easie
with
some
rotten
boughs
,
which
,
having
no
intrinsecal
conjunction
nor
continuity
with
that
body
whereof
they
had
been
arms
and
members
,
were
broaken
off
at
pleasure
by
the
hand
of
Justice
:
so
the
knotty
pieces
were
,
not
without
some
difficulty
wrought
off
by
the
strength
of
malice
,
and
acuteness
of
subtilty
in
the
too
partial
industrious
Journey-men
for
the
cause
.
The
Bishop
of
Rosse
,
the
Queen
of
Scots
greatest
agent
and
advocate
,
fencing
under
the
umbrage
of
the
publick
Embassie
,
saved
his
life
,
but
not
his
liberty
to
do
her
service
,
Felion
,
Story
,
Barnes
,
Mather
,
&c.
were
at
several
times
arraigned
,
and
executed
,
But
these
were
taken
to
be
at
too
great
a
distance
to
give
warning
to
their
captive
Queen
.
The
Duke
of
Norfolk
was
her
principal
adhearent
they
aim'd
at
,
the
most
likely
Champion
to
have
justified
her
title
;
who
,
though
at
his
death
he
protested
his
chiefest
endeavours
had
been
to
reestablish
the
oppressed
Queen
,
and
suppress
the
rebellious
practises
in
her
Kingdom
;
yet
,
because
his
Plot
was
laid
in
the
dark
,
and
his
complices
abroad
such
as
,
for
their
own
ends
,
kept
not
within
the
compass
of
his
designs
,
but
wrought
the
ruine
of
England
into
their
hopes
,
met
with
Law
enough
to
condemn
him
by
his
Peers
,
and
after
four
moneths
reprieve
by
the
Queens
singular
favour
,
inexorable
Justice
to
behead
him
upon
the
Scaffold
.
This
much
heightened
the
Assembly
men
in
Scotland
,
who
wiping
their
eyes
to
behold
,
with
much
consolation
of
spirit
,
by
what
a
slender
thread
their
successes
had
hung
the
ax
over
their
imprisoned
Queen
,
endeared
each
other
by
the
mutual
assurance
they
gave
,
it
could
not
be
long
before
her
Head
too
must
off
,
and
then
the
Discipline
they
thought
would
take
place
with
the
unquestionable
Succession
of
the
King
.
Not
ten
dayes
passed
after
the
Dukes
death
,
before
they
wrought
by
their
Agents
,
that
Commissioners
were
sent
,
Lord
de
l'
Amour
,
Sadler
,
Wilson
,
and
Bromley
,
to
expostulate
with
the
Queen
of
Scots
about
her
treasonable
practises
against
the
Crown
of
England
,
and
to
ring
the
knell
of
the
Dukes
destiny
in
her
ears
.
The
French
,
more
earnestly
than
before
interceding
for
her
liberty
,
are
silenced
with
instances
of
their
own
cashiering
their
Kings
,
Childerike
by
Pipin
,
Charls
of
Lorraign
by
Hugh
Capet
,
imprisoning
the
Queens
of
Lewis
,
Philip
the
Long
,
and
Charls
the
Fair
,
successively
.
The
cases
of
Henry
the
Second
of
England
,
Alphonsus
of
Castile
,
and
Charls
the
fifth
of
Spain
,
and
Scicilie
are
produced
as
precedents
for
taking
the
Crown
,
their
Mothers
surviving
;
And
the
honourable
restraint
of
the
Queen
of
Scots
pleaded
a
favour
beyond
her
desert
,
or
on
this
side
her
guilt
,
and
onely
for
the
security
of
Queen
Elizabeth
and
her
Kingdom
,
yet
room
was
left
for
the
Queens
ingenuity
to
acknowledge
that
the
former
extraordinary
and
extrajudicial
examples
were
not
drawn
cleer
off
from
their
Lees
,
nor
justifiable
in
every
circumstance
that
accompanied
them
.
After
this
the
Duke
of
Momorancie
Ambassador
from
the
King
of
France
presseth
a
cessation
of
Arms
in
Scotland
,
a
free
Parliament
,
or
at
least
delegates
from
both
sides
to
treat
at
London
with
the
like
deputed
by
the
Queen
of
England
,
and
French
King
;
but
this
could
not
be
hearkened
to
,
and
the
aversion
of
Lord
Grange
with
his
Garrison
in
Edenburgh
Castle
from
peace
,
upon
hopes
of
supplies
out
of
France
,
is
made
the
only
barr
against
a
general
accord
.
Since
the
Earl
of
Marre's
death
,
there
had
been
no
Regent
in
Scotland
,
but
Christs
viceroies
in
black
took
the
care
of
both
Swords
,
and
passed
Assembly
acts
at
pleasure
,
authentick
,
no
question
,
so
long
as
the
young
King
breathed
in
the
Country
,
who
must
pay
the
Church
tribute
for
his
life
by
an
innocent
compliance
to
enact
what
they
list
,
to
which
purpose
they
kept
him
,
and
would
not
part
with
this
Jewel
to
England
,
nor
France
,
though
both
desired
to
have
him
out
of
the
noise
and
danger
of
their
Wars
:
but
this
look'd
like
a
Monarchy
divinely
limited
by
the
boundaries
of
the
Discipline
,
which
might
sweeten
their
liberty
by
degrees
to
a
silent
desertion
of
all
future
Government
by
a
King
.
Queen
Elizabeth
therefore
,
who
was
in
a
manner
perpetuall
Protectrice
calls
upon
them
to
go
about
the
election
of
a
Regent
.
The
Earl
Morton
was
the
man
they
made
choice
of
,
whereby
they
seem'd
both
to
gratifie
the
Queen
,
and
provide
a
mercenarie
creature
to
their
purpose
,
he
having
not
long
before
delivered
up
the
Earl
of
Northumberland
who
had
fled
to
Scotland
for
refuge
,
and
for
a
piece
of
mony
unworthily
(
as
to
the
point
of
personall
honour
)
betrayed
an
obliging
Friend
,
who
had
fed
and
harbour'd
him
in
his
exile
.
The
late
Earl
of
Marre
had
broak
the
Assemblies
Instructions
in
his
Regency
by
offering
at
some
restraint
unto
the
Church
,
which
had
been
better
doubted
upon
the
Infant
person
of
the
King
,
and
therefore
his
Son
might
well
be
opposed
in
his
hereditary
priviledge
to
have
the
young
King
in
his
custody
,
especially
his
own
minority
requiring
rather
to
have
than
to
become
a
Guardian
,
yet
conditions
being
made
,
the
charge
was
conferr'd
upon
him
,
for
to
secure
the
main
good
order
was
taken
by
the
new
Regent
,
That
no
Papist
nor
factious
person
(
under
which
were
comprised
all
loyal
Subjects
)
should
have
accesse
unto
the
King
.
An
Earl
with
onely
two
Servants
attending
him
;
A
Baron
with
one
;
All
others
single
and
unarmed
.
The
Queen
of
Scots
deplorable
condition
in
England
discouraged
her
principal
abettors
at
home
;
The
Duke
of
Castle
Herald
and
Huntley
are
drawn
in
to
acknowledge
the
King
and
his
Regent
;
the
Lord
Grange
,
Humes
,
and
Lidington
maintain
their
loyalty
so
long
as
they
can
in
Edenburgh
Castle
,
which
after
a
siege
laid
to
it
by
Queen
Elizabeths
Forces
(
which
she
lent
the
Regent
out
of
kindness
hastened
by
her
jealousie
of
the
French
,
from
whom
the
Queens
Royalists
in
Scotland
expected
succour
)
was
resigned
,
and
according
to
the
Disciplinarian
mercy
,
the
first
was
hanged
,
the
second
scarcely
pardoned
,
at
Queen
Elizabeths
intreaty
;
the
third
,
having
sometime
been
a
Friend
,
sent
to
Leith
,
and
yet
upon-after-thought
,
because
of
a
subtile
and
active
headpiece
,
supposed
very
probably
to
be
poison'd
,
by
which
Christian
proceedings
the
Presbyterian
Rebells
become
absolute
Masters
,
rule
King
and
Country
without
contradiction
.
And
now
their
work
being
done
,
they
turn
their
pack-horse
Souldiers
to
grass
,
some
of
whom
get
new
entertainment
in
Swedeland
,
others
agree
better
with
the
imployment
in
France
,
and
the
Low-Countries
.
The
cessation
of
armes
in
Scotland
gives
the
restless
Brethren
some
respite
to
bethink
themselves
how
to
work
mischief
abroad
.
The
Bishop
of
Rosse
,
though
a
prisoner
in
England
,
had
his
head
at
liberty
to
devise
,
and
too
many
hands
in
readiness
to
execute
what
he
should
command
upon
any
visible
advantage
against
them
.
Their
importunity
being
not
able
to
prevail
for
injustice
,
and
cruelty
enough
to
put
him
to
death
,
they
accept
of
his
exile
out
of
England
,
though
they
foresee
that
will
not
quit
them
of
their
fears
.
Morton
the
Regent
craves
a
league
with
England
of
mutual
defense
against
all
forraign
Forces
,
and
would
have
a
large
pension
for
himself
and
some
Scots
his
devoted
guards
against
the
pretended
attempts
to
depose
him
;
but
that
would
not
be
hearkened
to
;
somewhat
else
with
lesse
charge
,
and
slight
proofs
did
accumulate
gu●lt
upon
the
Queen
of
Scots
for
contriving
a
dangerous
Match
between
a
Scotch
Earl
of
the
blood
,
the
Kings
Vnkle
,
and
the
Lady
Elizabeth
Candish
the
Countess
of
Shrewsburies
Daughter
,
for
which
her
Mother
and
divers
Ladies
were
imprisoned
.
Soon
after
the
good
old
Earl
of
Castleherault
having
taken
no
great
content
in
changing
sides
,
and
forsaking
his
quond●m
pupill
and
Queen
,
by
the
mod●rate
way
of
disciplinar●an
dispatch
was
vexed
into
a
sickness
,
and
dyed
.
In
the
year
1577
was
discovered
Don
Iohn
of
Austria's
designe
to
marry
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
which
the
Brethren
fores●eing
,
would
imply
the
liberty
of
her
person
,
and
confusion
of
their
cause
,
were
not
wanting
in
d●ligence
to
quicken
information
,
and
aggravate
prejudice
to
the
Queen
of
England
.
The
Don●ailing
of
strength
and
assistance
to
carry
on
this
,
and
other
vast
youthfull
designes
,
the
next
year
,
as
't
is
thought
took
no
other
pestilent
infection
then
grief
,
which
brought
him
to
his
Grave
.
In
the
year
following
the
face
of
Government
in
Scotland
was
alter'd
Earl
Mortons
covetous
converting
that
publick
treasure
to
his
temporal
use
,
which
should
maintaine
Christs
Ecclesiastick
Kingdom
in
luster
,
brings
upon
him
the
damnation
of
the
Discipline
,
in
deposing
him
from
his
Regency
,
being
scarcely
afforded
the
favour
of
communion
with
his
Peers
.
The
King
yet
but
twelve
years
of
age
was
apprehensive
enough
of
the
tyranny
he
had
been
under
,
and
in
capacity
to
accept
any
courteous
tender
as
well
of
his
liberty
as
of
his
Crown
.
It
was
found
convenient
to
trust
him
with
the
title
of
Governing
,
but
that
he
might
be
sure
not
to
surfeit
upon
the
power
,
he
had
his
twelve
Godfathers
to
passe
upon
him
for
every
year
one
.
Earl
Morton
was
kept
in
to
instruct
the
rest
rather
how
to
give
in
verdict
,
upon
His
Majesties
actions
then
Counsel
to
his
person
,
and
had
the
cunning
to
keep
himself
fore-man
of
the
Jury
;
but
unadvisedly
endeavouring
to
improve
his
interest
to
the
retroduction
of
detestable
regency
,
split
his
own
with
the
twelve
Members
superintendency
in
pieces
,
and
to
little
purpose
secur'd
the
King
in
the
Castle
of
Sterling
,
there
being
a
Regal
power
pretended
abroad
that
gave
the
Earl
of
Athol
commission
to
leavy
an
Army
to
meet
him
in
the
Field
.
Sir
Robert
Bowes
the
English
Ambassador
composed
the
publick
difference
at
present
,
after
which
a
better
expedient
was
supposed
to
be
found
,
to
prevent
by
poyson
all
further
martial
attempts
of
Athol
,
while
Earl
Morton
betook
himself
more
unto
his
privacy
than
innocency
at
home
.
The
first
salley
of
Regal
government
under
the
pretended
personall
conduct
of
the
King
put
the
Assembly
brethren
in
mind
to
strengthen
their
incroachment
upon
the
Church
,
to
which
purpose
follows
a
discharging
of
Chapters
with
their
election
of
Bishops
;
the
titular
Bishops
are
warned
to
quit
their
anti-christian
corruptions
,
in
particular
was
instanc'd
their
receiving
Ecclesiastick
emoluments
,
so
that
,
notwithstanding
all
former
Acts
and
agreements
for
life
,
their
known
assignation
of
benefice
must
be
as
well
extinct
,
as
their
Jurisdiction
and
office
:
yet
to
please
the
young
King
,
who
beyond
his
years
had
a
discretive
Judgement
,
and
held
Episcopacy
in
a
reverend
esteem
,
that
they
might
seem
to
leave
them
somewhat
to
do
,
they
make
them
Itinerant
Visiters
of
their
Hospitals
,
themselves
being
the
Sacrilegious
Collectors
of
the
Rents
.
Beside
this
,
they
heave
hard
to
obtain
an
establishment
of
the
policy
in
the
Second
Book
of
their
Discipline
,
but
as
that
,
yet
could
not
be
got
to
be
incorporated
with
other
Parliament
Acts
;
At
this
time
two
French
Noblemen
raise
fears
and
jealousies
in
abundance
,
the
Duke
of
Alanson
in
England
by
endeavouring
a
Marriage
with
Queen
Elizabeth
,
with
whom
he
held
private
conference
,
but
was
suspected
to
aime
at
restoring
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
Lord
Aubignie
in
Scotland
,
who
was
become
the
only
favorite
of
the
King
.
The
consequences
of
the
Marriage
were
debated
by
the
Lords
in
Council
,
and
their
opposite
possibilities
or
conjectures
represented
to
the
Queen
.
The
new
humours
of
Esme
Stuart
,
Lord
d'
Aubignie
,
whom
the
King
had
●arely
c●eated
Duke
of
Lenox
,
was
a
business
undoubted
to
be
of
Ecclesiastical
cognizance
,
and
therefore
taken
into
consideration
by
the
Assembly
,
the
Christian
result
of
whose
counsels
was
this
.
To
set
up
against
him
an
emulous
rival
,
Iames
Stuart
of
the
Ochiltrie
Family
,
call'd
Earl
of
Arran
,
which
title
he
attained
by
cession
from
one
of
the
Hamiltons
not
well
in
his
wits
,
to
whom
he
had
been
Guardian
;
but
these
two
were
soon
reconciled
by
the
King
▪
and
the
Assembly
Brethren
defeated
in
their
plot
.
They
can
soon
find
means
to
be
revenged
,
and
make
the
King
hear
of
his
misdemeanour
.
A
large
complaint
is
sent
up
to
Queen
Elizabeth
,
which
being
sweetned
with
the
discovery
of
a
feigned
designe
to
conveigh
the
captive
Queen
out
of
rison
,
laid
to
the
charge
of
the
Duke
of
Lenox
rellisheth
well
in
the
Court
and
Council
of
England
,
from
whence
come
endeavours
and
Embassies
to
degrade
him
from
favour
if
not
his
honour
,
and
dem●nds
to
have
him
bani●●ed
out
of
Scotland
.
The
young
King
had
now
quit
himself
of
his
pupillage
,
and
with
that
of
his
custome
,
to
return
suppliant
answers
by
his
Regent
according
to
the
instructions
that
ever
accompanied
the
demands
.
Sir
Robert
Bowes
the
Agent
was
admitted
to
deliver
his
Message
,
but
not
with
his
condition
to
have
Lenox
removed
from
the
Council
,
and
therefore
went
grumbling
home
without
audience
.
Humes
was
sent
with
a
complement
after
him
,
and
had
the
like
reception
in
England
,
where
he
was
turn'd
over
to
Lord
Treasurer
Burleigh
,
and
could
have
no
admission
to
the
Queen
.
Lord
Burleigh
at
large
expostulated
with
him
about
the
miscarriage
of
some
in
the
Scotch
Kings
Council
.
The
Queen
of
Englands
succesfull
endeavours
were
magnified
,
and
her
tender
care
in
preventing
many
eminent
mischiefs
from
the
French
;
Some
sharp
language
was
used
,
which
was
hoped
would
cut
off
the
Kings
affection
to
the
Duke
of
Lenox
,
and
make
way
for
Mortons
restitution
to
favour
;
but
the
issue
was
otherwise
,
Morton
was
question'd
for
many
great
enormities
,
especially
the
murder
of
the
Kings
Father
,
Randolph
is
sent
to
intercede
somewhat
magisterially
,
and
hinder
the
proceeding
against
him
for
his
life
.
The
King
adhears
to
his
Laws
,
by
which
he
answers
he
is
bound
to
submit
Delinquents
to
Justice
.
Randolph
by
the
help
of
the
Assembly
Brethren
makes
a
strong
faction
of
Lenox's
enemies
and
Mortons
Friends
,
draws
Argile
,
Angus
,
and
many
other
of
the
Nobility
to
the
party
,
but
their
different
interests
caus'd
division
in
their
counsels
,
made
them
quit
the
engagement
,
and
leave
Morton
,
after
proof
and
his
own
confession
of
the
murder
,
to
pay
his
Head
●o
the
Justice
of
the
Law
.
In
this
time
passed
many
arrogant
.
Acts
in
their
general
Assemblies
:
one
among
the
rest
did
confine
the
holy
Kirk
of
Iesus
Christ
in
that
Realm
to
the
Ministers
of
the
blessed
Evangel
,
and
such
as
were
in
communion
with
them
,
excluding
all
the
Episcopal
party
,
and
de●iv●ring
them
up
to
Satan
as
being
Members
of
a
Kirk
divided
from
the
Society
of
Christs
body
.
They
professed
,
That
there
was
no
other
face
of
Kirk
▪
no
other
face
of
Religion
,
then
was
presently
at
that
time
established
,
which
therefore
is
●ver
stiled
Gods
true
Religion
,
Christs
true
Religion
,
the
true
and
Christian
Religion
,
admi●ting
,
it
seems
,
no
other
Religion
to
be
so
much
as
Christi●n
but
that
.
Beside
th●s
,
other
Acts
there
were
ent●enc●ing
upon
the
civill
authority
,
whereupon
the
King
by
Letter
required
the
Assembly
to
abstain
from
making
any
innovations
in
the
Policy
of
the
Church
,
and
from
prejudging
the
decisions
of
the
State
by
their
conclusions
,
to
suffer
all
things
to
continue
in
the
condition
they
were
▪
during
the
time
of
his
minority
;
They
regard
not
his
letter
;
send
a
Committee
to
Striveling
to
contest
with
His
Majesty
,
and
sit
down
again
about
the
ordering
their
Discipline
;
Set
Iohn
Craig
a
Presbyter
about
framing
a
most
rigid
*
Negative
confession
of
Faith
;
Never
let
His
Majesty
have
quiet
,
untill
himself
and
his
Family
subscribe
it
;
Wrest
a
charge
from
him
to
all
Commissioners
and
Ministers
to
require
the
like
subscriptions
from
all
,
and
upon
this
authority
,
taken
by
violence
,
play
the
tyrants
over
the
Consciences
of
the
people
They
censure
the
Presbytery
of
Striveling
for
admitting
Montgomery
to
the
temporallity
of
the
Bishoprick
of
Glascow
,
and
him
for
aspiring
thereto
,
contrary
to
the
word
of
God
,
and
Acts
of
the
Kirk
.
While
they
are
thus
fencing
with
the
spirituall
Sword
in
Scotland
,
their
pure
Brethren
in
England
execute
their
Commission
by
the
pen
,
where
the
marriage
between
Qu.
Elizabeth
and
Alanson
,
new
Duke
of
Anj●u
,
being
in
a
manner
concluded
,
they
set
out
a
virulent
book
with
this
Title
,
The
Gulf
wherein
England
will
be
swallowed
by
the
French
Marriage
,
but
the
Author
,
Iohn
Stubbs
of
Lincolns-Inne
,
a
zealous
professor
,
as
he
must
needs
be
who
was
Brother-in-Law
to
Cartwright
,
and
one
William
Page
,
who
dispersed
the
Copies
,
soon
after
had
their
hands
cut
off
on
a
Scaffold
at
Westminster
,
and
play'd
their
parts
no
more
at
that
weapon
.
But
the
civil
Sword
must
have
its
turn
,
and
what
no
menacing
bulls
of
the
Assembly
,
nor
any
pointed
calumnies
of
mercenary
pens
can
keep
off
,
must
by
a
stratagem
be
declined
at
first
,
and
yet
the
same
afterward
authorized
by
strength
.
The
long
disconsolate
captivity
of
the
Queen
,
and
despair
of
ever
obtaining
her
liberty
,
had
withdrawn
her
thoughts
from
her
Scepter
on
earth
,
and
rais'd
them
to
an
higher
kingdom
than
the
Scots
,
whereon
that
they
might
be
fixed
without
any
diversion
,
she
resolves
to
divest
her self
of
the
other
interest
,
and
confer
freely
her
Royal
title
upon
her
Son
.
The
Assembly
Brethren
have
intimation
hereof
,
do
not
like
to
have
their
King
become
absolute
,
or
Reign
by
any
other
Title
than
what
he
had
before
received
on
courtesie
from
them
.
The
Duke
of
Lenox
,
and
Earl
of
Arran
are
two
good
Friends
to
his
Majesty
,
not
to
be
instrumentall
in
promoting
so
just
an
advancement
to
his
Crown
,
and
therefore
it
is
the
Presbyters
tasks
to
preach
them
out
of
all
favour
with
the
people
,
and
then
an
opportunity
is
fairly
taken
in
their
absence
from
Court
for
the
Earls
Gowry
,
Marre
,
Lindsey
,
and
others
,
to
invite
his
Majesty
to
the
Castle
of
Ruthen
,
and
by
the
Laws
of
Displinarian
hospitality
,
detain
him
prisoner
,
dismiss
his
retinue
,
deny
him
the
liberty
to
stir
abroad
but
at
his
peril
.
Nor
indeed
could
he
well
be
at
leisure
to
walk
for
the
perpetuity
of
business
they
found
him
within
doors
,
forcing
him
first
by
a
Writ
to
recall
Earl
Angus
from
England
,
whither
the
guilt
of
his
late
rebellion
had
carried
him
;
by
another
after
the
imprisonment
of
His
Majesties
dearest
Friend
,
to
command
the
Duke
of
Lenox
into
France
,
who
being
in
possession
of
Dunbriton
Castle
,
might
have
disputed
the
freedome
of
that
Royal
command
,
if
his
clear
awfull
spirit
had
not
dreaded
the
thought
of
the
least
disloyal
averseness
to
obey
;
And
by
a
slight
of
singul●r
cunning
tyranny
in
a
third
,
fram'd
into
a
Letter
to
Queen
Elizabeth
of
England
▪
to
justifie
their
act
,
and
contract
the
guilt
of
that
unnatural
sin
in
laying
violent
hands
upon
himself
;
By
a
fourth
to
authorize
the
Convention
of
States
indicted
by
them
.
All
acts
of
such
transcendent
rebellion
,
that
George
Buchanan
,
their
never-failing
advocate
before
,
could
be
wrought
neither
to
advise
by
his
Council
,
nor
justifie
with
his
pen
;
nay
,
't
is
said
he
turn'd
penitent
upon
it
,
retracted
with
tears
what
he
had
writ
before
in
their
cause
,
and
wished
he
could
wash
out
all
the
spots
,
the
black
calumnies
he
had
dropt
upon
Royal
Majesty
with
his
blood
,
yet
further
,
he
would
have
writ
retractions
,
if
being
so
old
,
he
could
have
hoped
such
a
conversion
would
not
have
been
interpreted
an
act
rather
of
dotage
then
devotion
.
The
Queen
of
Scots
much
affected
with
this
treasonable
surprisal
of
her
Son
,
complains
at
large
to
Queen
Elizabeth
in
a
Letter
,
appeals
to
her
conscience
for
Justice
,
and
summons
her
to
her
plea
about
the
differences
between
them
before
the
highest
Tribunal
of
Heaven
;
yet
very
charitably
imputes
the
obstruction
of
intercourse
between
her
and
her
Son
for
a
twelvemoneth
before
,
as
likewise
Queen
Elizabeths
long
silence
,
notwithstanding
some
former
importunate
letters
,
not
unto
her self
,
but
some
malignant
disposition
in
her
Council
.
Queen
Elizabeths
blood
and
thoughts
had
many
quick
motions
upon
this
querulous
writing
,
many
ebbs
and
flows
of
resolutions
and
fears
;
at
length
Mr.
Secretary
Deale
,
an
austere
man
,
and
no
Friend
at
all
unto
the
Royal
Prisoner
,
was
joyn'd
in
Commission
with
the
Earl
of
Shrewsbury
to
expostulate
the
business
with
the
captive
Queen
,
and
yet
treat
with
her
about
articles
of
enlargement
:
but
the
Disciplinarian
Scots
being
called
in
about
what
concern'd
them
,
raised
new
spirits
of
division
,
by
interposing
ungrounded
jealousies
of
one
Father
Holt
a
Iesuit
,
and
some
other
Emissaries
lately
come
over
,
as
they
alledged
,
on
purpose
to
plot
the
invasion
of
England
,
and
therewith
a
violent
rescue
of
their
Queen
.
As
little
truth
as
there
was
in
this
calumny
,
there
was
Sophistrie
enough
to
prevaile
with
Queen
Elizabeth
to
lay
aside
the
complaint
of
her
prisoner
,
and
to
imploy
her
two
Agents
in
Scotland
,
Bowes
and
Davison
in
vying
Courtship
with
two
other
from
the
French
,
to
gaine
upon
the
affection
of
the
King
.
The
News
of
the
Duke
of
Lenox's
death
at
Paris
,
though
accompanied
with
that
which
confounded
his
enemies
,
who
thought
they
had
undone
him
by
traducing
him
for
a
Papist
,
puts
life
into
the
Kings
banded
Jailers
,
who
take
assurance
by
this
they
had
him
prisoner
during
pleasure
,
but
His
Majestie
escapes
soon
after
to
the
Castle
of
Saint
Andrews
makes
them
curse
the
lying
spirit
in
their
Prophets
,
and
desperate
enough
to
become
executioners
of
themselves
,
but
the
good
King
,
repriev'd
them
by
his
mercy
,
offering
pardon
unto
all
that
could
find
confidence
to
ask
it
;
but
this
appear'd
in
none
but
Earl
Gowrie
,
who
corrupted
the
benefit
of
it
unto
his
bane
,
The
rest
,
not
long
after
,
being
banish'd
,
went
some
into
Ireland
,
others
into
France
,
only
Angus
ask'd
and
had
a
confinement
unto
his
Earldom
.
Queen
Elizabeth
sends
Sir
Francis
Walsingham
to
the
King
,
not
so
much
to
gratulate
his
liberty
,
as
to
instill
some
sententious
Counsel
how
to
use
it
.
He
meets
with
a
greater
luster
and
gallantry
in
the
Scotch
Court
then
he
expected
,
and
a
young
King
as
grave
a
politician
as
himself
.
He
was
entertained
better
than
his
carriage
to
the
captive
Queen
had
deserved
,
and
returned
with
an
answer
no
less
modest
than
Majestick
.
Though
many
acts
had
passed
the
Assemblies
of
late
derogatory
to
the
safety
and
Royal
authority
of
the
King
,
yet
none
more
than
the
justifying
the
late
Treason
,
requiring
the
Ministers
in
all
their
Churches
to
commend
it
unto
the
people
,
and
threatning
excommunication
to
such
as
subscribed
not
,
though
against
their
Conscience
,
to
the
unjust
judgement
of
the
Assembly
.
And
in
the
year
1582
▪
the
Assembly
at
Saint
Andrews
proceeded
violently
against
one
Montgomery
Bishop
of
Saint
Andrews
,
cutting
off
the
appeal
he
had
made
unto
the
King
,
rejecting
both
his
Letter
and
Messenger
sent
on
purpose
to
inhibite
them
.
The
late
treasonable
justification
voted
by
the
Assembly
,
though
nipt
in
the
bud
by
the
Kings
unexpected
escape
,
and
all
the
leaves
scattered
by
the
breath
of
his
displeasure
into
several
corners
of
the
world
,
began
now
to
sprout
again
in
a
second
conspiracy
,
many
of
the
Traitors
being
at
that
time
appointed
by
Gowry
return'd
again
,
and
under
the
colour
of
care
and
courtesie
to
the
King
,
attempting
a
second
surprizal
of
his
person
.
But
the
Earl
of
Arran
,
whom
they
had
not
now
time
or
opportunity
to
secure
,
seizeth
upon
Gowrie
at
Dundee
,
and
the
Kings
martial
appearance
,
suddenly
affrights
his
Complices
out
of
the
Castle
of
Sterlin
,
which
they
had
taken
.
Queen
Elizabeth
,
whose
Court
because
the
Cathedral
of
Religion
,
was
ever
abused
as
a
sanctuary
after
a
Scotch
rebellion
,
had
now
a
new
address
to
make
by
mediation
unto
their
King
;
And
her
Secretary
Walsingham
,
by
the
(
no
justifiable
)
priviledg
of
his
place
issued
out
Writs
in
Her
Majesties
name
,
though
without
her
knowledg
,
for
their
admission
into
the
Holy
Island
.
The
Letters
were
not
obeyed
by
Earl
Hunsdon
,
who
d●sputed
the
Secretaries
single
separate
authority
,
nor
was
the
Queen
hearken●d
to
otherwise
then
by
yeilding
a
legal
tryal
,
which
cost
Gowrie
h●s
Head
,
for
all
the
promises
he
had
of
better
success
from
o●e
Maclen
a
W●tch
whom
he
had
consulted
in
the
case
.
To
ballance
this
somewhat
must
be
done
by
the
Disciplinarian
undertakers
in
England
,
who
frame
divers
L●tters
in
the
name
of
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
and
some
English
fugitives
conveigh
them
into
the
Papists
houses
,
and
then
make
discovery
of
a
plot
.
Hereupon
,
as
slight
and
improbable
as
the
proofs
were
▪
the
Earls
of
Northumberland
and
Arundel
were
confined
,
his
Lady
imprison'd
,
divers
examin'd
,
and
the
Lord
Paget
scarcely
by
h●s
prudent
innocency
protected
.
Queen
Elizabeth
though
facile
in
hearing
their
complaints
,
was
not
so
barbarous
as
to
execute
the
cruelty
of
their
Counsels
,
but
called
her
Judges
to
account
for
their
extream
serverity
against
the
Papists
,
granting
indemnity
and
liberty
to
many
Iesuits
and
Priests
.
Yet
Mendoza
the
Spanish
Ambassador
was
sent
home
;
and
Throckmorton
,
whom
he
was
said
to
have
encouraged
in
an
intricate
conspiracy
▪
being
neither
constant
in
denying
,
nor
clear
in
confessing
,
nor
at
all
,
cunning
in
concealing
or
disguising
his
guilt
,
was
hang'd
.
A
new
Treaty
between
the
two
Queens
is
now
commenc'd
,
and
Sir
William
Wade
imployed
in
an
overture
unto
the
Queen
of
Scots
▪
but
the
Agitators
of
differences
between
them
,
renew
their
division
by
unseasonable
jealousies
and
fears
,
and
Wade
falls
to
pasting
Father
Creyghtone
the
Iesuits
torn
papers
together
,
neglecting
a
far
more
Christian
and
honourable
artifice
▪
which
he
might
ha●e
s●ewed
by
cementing
the
unhappy
rupture
in
two
so
Royal
and
magnanimous
Ladies
hearts
.
This
new
discomposure
gave
the
Scottish
partizans
in
England
a
colourable
pretense
to
enter
into
an
association
for
Queen
Elizabeths
security
from
danger
,
which
was
managed
by
the
policy
of
the
Earl
of
Leicester
:
The
Queen
of
Scots
took
hence
an
alarum
o●
her
ruine
,
yet
chose
rather
to
submit
somewhat
of
her
spirit
,
then
in
an
humour
sacrifice
her
life
unto
their
malice
.
She
sends
her
Secretary
Nave
with
Articles
so
near
Queen
Elizabeths
demands
as
had
wrought
undoubted
reconcilement
,
if
it
had
been
consistent
with
the
Discipline
of
the
Kirk
;
but
this
the
Scotch
Ministry
declared
to
be
otherwise
in
their
Pulpits
;
call
out
for
help
,
as
if
both
Kingdoms
had
been
on
●ire
,
and
Christian
Religion
in
danger
to
be
consumed
by
the
flames
,
inve●gh
bitterly
against
their
Queen
,
King
,
and
his
Council
;
slight
the
Kings
summons
to
answer
;
stand
upon
their
Ecclesiastical
exemption
,
and
Presbyterian
privilege
of
immunity
from
his
censure
.
The
King
began
from
hence
to
apprehend
it
better
for
his
safety
,
and
more
agreeable
with
his
honour
to
restore
the
Mi●er
to
the
Church
,
then
cast
away
his
Crown
to
a
mungrel
lay-Clerical
Assembly
.
Hereupon
he
recalls
Bishops
to
their
primitive
jurisdiction
and
dignity
;
inhibites
all
Presbyteries
and
their
Synods
,
together
with
the
popular
parity
of
Ministers
,
and
among
other
Acts
pas●eth
this
in
the
eight
Parliament●olden
at
Edenburgh
May
22.
1584.
which
alone
cuts
off
all
their
vaine
●retences
to
this
day
.
For
as
much
as
some
persons
being
●ately
called
before
the
Kings
Maje●ty
,
and
his
secret
Council
,
to
answer
●pon
certain
points
to
have
been
enqui●ed
of
t●em
,
concerning
some
treaso●able
,
seditious
,
and
contumelious
●●eeches
,
uttered
by
them
in
Pulpits
,
●chools
,
and
otherways
to
the
disdain
●nd
reproach
of
his
Highness
,
his
Pro●enitors
,
and
present
Council
,
con●●mptuously
declined
the
judgement
of
●is
Highness
and
his
said
Council
in
that
behalf
,
to
the
evill
example
of
others
to
d●
the
like
,
if
timely
remedy
be
not
provided
:
Therefore
our
S●veraigne
Lord
,
and
his
thre●
Estates
assembled
in
this
present
Parliament
,
ratifieth
and
approveth
,
and
perpetually
confirmeth
the
Royal
power
and
authority
over
all
Estates
,
as
well
spiritual
as
temporal
within
this
Realm
,
in
the
person
of
the
Kings
Majesty
,
our
Soveraigne
Lord
,
his
Heirs
and
Successors
:
And
also
statuteth
,
and
ordaineth
,
that
his
Hign●ss
,
his
Heirs
and
Successors
by
themselves
,
and
their
Councils
,
are
,
and
in
time
to
com●
shall
be
judges
competent
to
all
person
His
Highnesses
subjects
,
of
what
estate
degree
,
function
,
or
condition
so
〈◊〉
they
be
,
spiritual
or
temporal
,
in
〈◊〉
matters
wherein
they
or
any
of
the●
shall
be
apprehended
,
summoned
,
〈◊〉
charged
to
answer
to
such
things
〈◊〉
shall
be
enquired
of
them
by
our
〈◊〉
Soveraigne
Lord
and
his
Council
And
that
none
of
them
which
shal●
happen
to
be
apprehended
,
called
,
〈◊〉
summoned
to
the
effect
aforesaid
,
pr●sume
to
take
in
hand
to
d●cline
〈◊〉
judgement
of
his
Highness
,
his
Heirs
and
S●ccessors
,
or
their
Council
in
the
Premises
,
under
the
pain
of
Treason
.
This
Act
puts
many
of
the
Assembly
birds
upon
the
wing
,
who
,
i●n●cent
D●●es
,
take
none
but
a
Virgin
breast
for
their
refuge
.
Queen
Elizabeth
,
whose
too
industri●us
infirmi●y
it
was
to
keep
up
her
popular
interest
with
all
,
as
well
as
to
enjoy
the
honour
and
more
clear
content
of
an
impartial
conscience
within
her self
,
although
she
gave
no
ear
to
their
querulous
Remonstrances
in
private
,
nor
permitted
their
publick
libelling
in
her
Churches
,
yet
cherished
their
persons
,
and
very
unproperly
imployed
their
endeavours
to
preserve
Religion
from
innovations
,
which
made
no
such
real
impressions
in
Scotland
,
as
some
untrue
aggravating
relations
had
in
the
time●ous
minds
of
her
Reformed
English
Subjects
and
her self
.
This
practise
of
Her
Majesty
being
observed
by
those
who
looked
ou●
of
the
Scotch
Kings
Court
,
put
the
Earl
of
Arran
upon
a
forward
tender
of
his
Service
to
meet
Her
Majesties
desires
,
and
Her
Agent
the
Lord
Hunsdon
upon
the
borders
:
but
before
the
time
the
Sterlin
fugitives
,
whom
she
had
protected
,
were
prescribed
,
and
at
it
charged
by
the
Earl
with
their
treason
against
the
King
.
The
complement
he
left
of
his
real
intentions
at
parting
,
took
place
until
Patrike
Grey
came
with
another
Embassie
and
particular
Articles
from
King
Iames
.
But
the
ill
offices
,
it
was
suspected
,
he
did
at
the
same
time
,
to
the
captive
Queen
,
gain'd
him
no
reputation
with
her
party
;
and
put
her
upon
some
such
extraordinary
courses
,
as
betrayed
her
into
a
new
prison
under
more
restraint
,
and
L●icester
,
't
is
said
,
upon
murderous
designes
,
who
would
not
hear
of
her
liberty
,
lesse
of
her
succession
to
the
English
Crown
.
To
cover
whose
private
spleen
and
malitious
attempts
,
new
fears
are
fetched
from
the
Romane
Catholicks
,
and
their
designes
magnified
in
a
mist
unto
the
people
,
whereby
a
sharper
edge
is
set
upon
the
severity
of
the
Laws
.
This
alteration
encouraged
some
of
the
precise
Scottish
Religion
to
pursue
the
Queens
commands
for
pressing
in
Parliament
to
have
the
Bishops
reformed
,
and
to
others
,
as
may
be
not
improbably
conjectur'd
to
murder
the
Earl
of
Northumberland
in
the
Tower
,
because
a
known
Friend
to
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
though
they
left
the
pistol
wherewith
they
acted
it
in
his
Chamber
,
and
the
opinion
of
self-assasinate
at
his
door
.
Not
long
after
was
Sir
Edward
Wotton
sent
Ambassador
into
Scotland
,
to
renew
a
league
,
and
present
the
King
with
his
English
retinue
,
which
the
Regents
in
his
Minority
had
neglected
or
pawned
for
auxiliary
support
of
their
power
.
While
conditions
about
this
and
a
marriage
with
the
King
of
Denmarks
daughter
were
making
at
Court
,
some
others
were
broken
at
a
meeting
upon
the
borders
,
where
,
though
the
usual
Oath
for
mutual
security
was
taken
,
the
Earl
of
Bedford
was
slaine
,
and
though
by
whom
not
known
,
yet
the
Lord
Fernihurst
Governor
of
the
middle
Borders
was
accus'd
and
imprisoned
,
because
a
firm
adherent
to
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
and
the
Earl
of
Arran
c●nfined
,
b●cause
a
favorite
of
the
Kings
.
The
charge
was
fiercely
prosecuted
by
the
English
,
who
in
the
name
of
the
Queen
demanded
to
have
their
persons
delivered
,
which
not
obtain'd
,
the
E●rl
of
Angus
,
Marre
Glames
,
and
other
presc●ibed
Fugitive●
,
are
sent
home
,
who
have
no
sooner
set
foot
in
Scotland
,
but
by
the
advice
and
assistance
of
the
Assembly
brethren
,
they
summon
all
●n
the
Kings
name
to
them
for
defense
of
the
Evangel
,
removing
ill
Counsellors
from
the
King
,
and
conserving
the
old
amity
with
the
English
.
Being
got
into
a
body
of
8000
at
Fankirk
,
Arran
transgresseth
the
rules
of
his
confinement
to
expres●e
a
more
considerable
duty
to
the
King
,
unto
whom
he
accuseth
Patrike
Grey
of
this
Treason
(
which
he
cunningly
declines
,
)
and
fortifies
Sterlin
in
d●fense
of
the
King
;
but
the
work
was
not
done
when
the
Rebells
drew
near
,
and
began
to
set
their
scaling
Ladders
to
the
walls
.
The
Earl
of
Arran
knowing
his
p●rson
was
principally
aim'd
at
,
(
for
Lord
Fernihurst
was
lately
dead
in
prison
)
conveighs
himself
and
one
Servant
away
privately
by
a
bridge
,
and
then
the
Town-garrison
retreat
unto
the
King
in
the
Castle
.
The
Rebells
display
their
banners
in
his
sight
;
Lord
Grey
is
sent
out
to
demand
the
reason
of
their
coming
;
receives
a
meek
answer
,
To
kiss
the
Kings
hands
.
The
King
expresseth
no
liking
of
their
armed
love
,
offers
restitution
of
all
their
goods
if
they
will
depart
.
They
will
have
the
interest
of
admission
to
his
presence
,
and
when
they
have
it
,
capitulate
for
his
Castles
and
chief
holds
,
which
,
there
being
no
remedy
,
are
granted
,
with
the
delivery
up
of
divers
noble-men
,
Earls
Montross
,
Crawford
,
Rothsay
,
&c.
their
pardon
signed
,
and
the
Treaty
for
a
league
with
the
Queen
of
England
renewed
.
One
Article
whereof
,
had
it
be●n
sooner
agreed
on
,
had
preserved
both
Kingdoms
in
better
security
,
&
fetter'd
the
unruly
Di●cipline
to
its
duty
,
viz
That
neither
Prince
should
for
time
to
come
afford
assistance
or
favour
to
any
Traytor
or
Rebell
,
or
any
that
had
made
a
publick
defection
;
nor
suffer
them
to
be
relieved
by
others
;
nor
harbour
them
publickly
or
privately
in
their
Dominions
,
&c.
And
had
another
been
omitted
,
which
,
when
before
care
had
been
taken
for
defense
of
the
Christian
and
Catholick
Religion
,
draws
in
the
rea●m
of
The
pure
Reformation
,
which
the
Catholick
Romans
interpreted
by
the
Scotch
negative
confession
:
and
the
Catholick
Protestants
by
the
many
.
Assembly
Acts
condemning
and
branding
the
sacred
Episcopal
order
and
jurisdiction
,
as
Antichristian
,
happily
the
persons
of
both
Princes
had
not
been
engaged
in
such
after-hazard
,
nor
had
such
designes
been
prosecuted
for
the
invasion
of
their
Kingdoms
.
For
this
Treaty
was
no
sooner
concluded
,
but
a
most
desperate
conspiracy
in
England
broak
out
,
supposed
to
be
long
since
laid
by
the
too
zealous
consistory
at
Rome
,
but
took
life
now
,
being
hastily
hatched
by
some
preternatural
Scotch
Assembly●
hear
in
this
agreement
.
The
chief
actors
in
it
were
Father
Ballard
a
Priest
of
the
Seminary
at
Rhemes
,
Babington
a
a
young
ingenious
,
and
learned
Gentleman
,
of
a
good
extraction
and
Family
in
Darby-Shire
;
Sarisbury
of
Derbigh-shire
;
Tichbourne
of
Hampshire
,
with
ten
other
Gentlemen
of
good
quality
,
all
which
were
afterward
hanged
,
and
some
dismembred
alive
in
St
:
Giles's
fields
,
the
common
place
of
their
meeting
.
Their
designe
was
to
have
kill'd
Queen
Elizabeth
;
set
at
liberty
the
Queen
of
Scots
,
and
by
the
help
of
For●eign
strength
to
have
altered
the
face
of
Religion
in
both
kingdoms
.
The
Q.
of
Scots
though
suspected
to
be
private
unto
all
three
,
in
the
general
,
yet
p●ofess'd
to
her
death
that
she
encouraged
none
but
that
,
which
nature
suggesting
and
justifying
,
conduced
to
the
liberty
of
her
injured
person
,
and
half
restitu●ion
to
●er
Crown
.
Her
two
Secretaries
Nave
and
Curle
were
brought
in
by
Walsinghams
cunning
,
if
not
corrupted
rather
by
his
cost
very
unnaturally
to
accuse
her
;
who
,
as
from
the
beginning
,
he
daily
instructed
a
false
Brother
with
as
much
hypocrisie
and
perjury
as
could
be
,
to
carry
on
this
fatal
contrivance
:
so
't
is
not
certain
whether
by
him
,
and
other
polit●ck
instruments
he
had
,
he
discovered
or
made
more
of
what
was
desperate
in
the
plot
.
Before
the
Queen
of
Scots
came
to
her
tryal
,
several
judgements
passed
upon
her
in
private
,
anticipating
the
enquiry
after
better
evidence
,
and
the●r
Soveraigns
prerogative
in
granting
pardon
at
her
pleasu●e
.
They
whom
neither
the
fury
of
Disciplinarian
zeal
,
nor
any
private
malignant
spirit
had
possessed
,
deliliberately
sounding
the
shallowness
of
her
guilt
,
and
computing
the
shortness
of
her
life
by
her
sickness
,
adjudged
her
only
to
a
stricter
confinement
,
and
adventu●'d
to
have
the
possibilities
of
●ischie●
prevented
by
the
p●udence
of
the
State
.
Others
who
had
been
lighted
to
a
Religion
that
made
murder
and
innocence
consistent
,
did
not
care
if
some
wickedness
were
invented
to
d●spach
her
quickly
any
way
,
so
by
the
Law
Leicester
as
otherwise
,
so
desirous
to
become
voluptuous
in
revenge
,
●n●used
his
sentence
in
a
cup
of
ling●ing
poyson
,
that
he
might
take
at
leisure
his
delight
in
the
preassurance
of
her
death
;
And
wanting
an
help
to
discourse
at
his
Feast
,
invited
Walsingham
to
accompany
him
in
judgement
,
and
sent
a
Presbiterian
Divine
to
prepare
his
Conscience
by
a
Classica●l
indulgence
,
but
he
pretends
he
had
refused
a
less
courtesie
to
Morton
,
who
it
may
be
to
ballance
the
guilt
of
both
Kingdoms
,
had
advised
to
have
her
sent
into
Scotland
,
and
executed
on
the
Borde●s
,
yet
having
compromised
his
Vote
as
the
major
part
should
determine
it
,
begins
to
rectifie
their
method
,
and
puts
them
upon
debate
by
what
Law
they
should
proceed
.
There
were
but
two
cited
for
their
purpose
,
one
of
25
Edward
3.
the
other
27
Eliz.
The
latter
was
concluded
the
more
proper
,
because
in
effect
confessed
to
be
made
upon
designe
,
and
so
more
naturally
operative
for
the
end
it
was
intended
to
.
Those
of
the
Iuncto
knew
what
arguments
were
most
prevalent
with
the
Queen
to
signe
a
Writ
of
Delegacy
for
enquiry
,
wherein
a
multitude
were
nominated
,
who
must
not
deny
to
serve
up
their
honours
,
and
sacrifice
their
conscience
in
appearance
unto
their
Queens
name
,
but
indeed
to
some
more
passionate
impotency
in
her
Council
.
Most
of
these
were
sent
unto
Fotheringham
Castle
,
where
the
Queen
of
Scots
was
prisoner
to
Sir
Dru
Drurie
and
Sir
Amias
Pawlet
,
She
looking
upon
her
Iudges
,
and
their
Commission
in
their
papers
,
thought
the
sight
of
their
names
did
antidate
her
doom
;
yet
made
no
except●on
against
their
persons
,
onely
stood
upon
her
Majesty
as
a
Queen
,
and
chose
a
thousand
deaths
rather
than
descend
to
the
capacity
of
a
Subject
.
The
late
association
,
and
Act
of
Parliament
ensuing
upon
it
,
with
the
neglect
had
of
her
in
the
league
,
she
put
out
of
her
way
in
discourse
,
with
as
much
scorn
as
she
left
charity
in
the
room
to
forgive
the
injury
she
thought
done
he●
by
them
.
She
thought
her
cause
deserved
the
Theater
of
the
world
,
and
a
Diet
of
Princes
fitter
than
the
Subjects
delegated
by
any
one
to
decide
it
:
yet
a
free
Parliament
her
Majesty
accounted
no
contemptible
arbitrement
,
and
hoped
there
her
innocency
should
not
be
pinion'd
by
a
party
,
but
left
to
the
liberty
of
defense
.
At
length
the
Lord
Treasurer
telling
her
somewhat
harshly
,
That
if
she
would
not
ye●ld
her
presence
before
the
Delegates
,
her
absence
and
contum●cy
should
be
no
barre
to
them
in
executing
their
Commission
,
she
charged
him
and
the
rest
home
enough
with
this
poinant
answer
:
Then
sift
your
Consciences
,
have
a
care
of
your
Honors
,
●nd
God
reward
you
and
your
Heirs
according
to
the
Iustice
you
administer
to
me
.
The
next
day
she
sends
for
some
of
the
Delegates
,
and
putting
in
caution
that
her
submission
might
not
derogate
from
the
honour
of
her
predecessors
,
nor
prejudice
any
way
her
successors
in
their
right
,
Her
Majesty
professed
that
by
Sir
Christopher
Hattons
perswasions
she
was
resolved
to
condescend
to
Queen
Elizabeths
desires
in
a
publick
justification
of
her self
.
In
the
time
of
her
tryal
Iustice
Gawdies
narration
was
more
particular
than
the
rest
,
out
of
which
he
concluded
,
That
she
had
conspired
with
Ballard
and
the
rest
of
his
Complices
,
approv'd
assented
,
promis'd
aid
,
and
pointed
out
the
way
to
effect
their
designe
Ballard
and
Babington
she
protested
she
knew
not
;
acknowledged
that
many
indeed
unknown
to
her
had
offer'd
su●h
service
as
to
which
she
gave
no
encou●agement
;
and
how
far
they
proceeded
she
neither
knew
,
nor
being
in
prison
could
hinder
.
What
confessions
were
made
by
those
who
had
suffered
,
she
did
impute
to
the
sense
or
fear
of
their
tortures
;
And
what
her
own
Secretaries
produced
,
she
i●terpreted
rather
their
cunning
than
malice
,
to
shift
off
from
themselves
what
they
thought
would
never
be
questioned
in
her
.
Yet
their
hopes
fail'd
,
or
else
her
charity
mistook
,
for
their
evidence
cast
her
,
though
but
made
out
of
their
papers
,
and
such
as
Nave
in
an
Apology
disclaimed
.
Such
as
it
was
they
transmitted
from
Fo●heringham
Castle
to
Westminster
,
where
a
full
Parliament
voted
up
to
the
sense
of
the
principal
Delegates
,
some
out
of
zeal
,
others
for
feare
,
a
third
sort
in
rev●rence
of
,
and
implicite
credulity
in
their
state
policy
,
and
skill
of
the
Laws
;
All
out
of
hopes
to
please
Queen
Elizabeth
,
by
removing
the
object
of
her
jealousie
and
emulation
Yet
the
sentence
passed
,
the
Queens
signing
keeps
at
a
distance
,
having
a
long
p●ocession
of
demurrs
and
apologies
between
,
and
when
her
hand
came
to
take
hold
of
the
Justice
,
security
,
necessity
,
which
in
this
case
was
tender'd
to
her
in
the
name
of
her
Subjects
,
it
seemed
not
to
have
confidence
enough
to
own
any
Commission
from
her
heart
.
The
King
of
Scots
did
the
part
of
a
Son
,
to
preserve
his
Mother
,
and
measur'd
not
his
affection
and
duty
by
the
length
of
the
league
,
nor
confin'd
his
endeavours
to
the
circle
of
the
English
Crown
he
must
look
for
.
It
is
certain
there
was
an
unhappy
conjuncture
of
his
Mothers
fate
with
his
late
surprisal
at
Sterlin
,
which
made
him
as
unfit
to
expostulate
,
as
the
Assembly
Ministers
were
backward
to
pray
,
who
disobeyed
His
Majesties
commands
to
recommend
the
safety
of
their
Queen
his
Mother
in
their
publick
devotions
to
God
.
The
Scotch
Nobility
,
that
were
of
the
Eldership
did
as
their
black
Brethren
inspir'd
them
,
and
made
Patrike
Grey
forget
his
Message
which
he
had
from
the
King
,
to
deliver
in
place
a
proverb
made
by
the
Synod
,
and
often
inculcate
in
Queen
Elizabeths
ears
,
That
a
dead
Woman
could
not
bite
This
made
her
thoughts
become
somewhat
sententious
,
being
often
heard
to
whisper
to
her self
,
wth
a
sigh
,
Endure
or
strike
,
and
then
after
som●
respite
,
Strike
,
lest
thou
beest
strook
.
The
last
it
should
seem
left
the
imp●essi●n
,
and
signed
the
Bill
for
execution
,
which
committed
to
Secretary
Davison
with
a
mixture
of
com
and
remands
,
was
posted
away
by
one
Beale
a
zealous
professor
,
and
effected
with
more
hast
then
pretended
good
liking-Davison
being
call'd
into
the
Starr
▪
Chamber
for
acting
according
to
a
right
or
w●o●g
understanding
of
Her
Maj●sties
meaning
,
and
fined
ten
thousand
pounds
with
imprisonment
during
the
pleasure
of
the
Queen
▪
With
wh●t
courage
and
true
Christian
resolution
that
Royal
and
magnanimous
Princess
entertained
her
Death
;
may
be
read
at
large
in
the
Histories
of
those
Times
,
which
I
will
not
go
abou●
to
contract
,
lest
I
commit
Sacriledge
on
a
Saint
.
I
shal
onely
among
other
circumstances
intimate
how
the
Disciplinarian
malice
pursued
her
Soul
with
a
sharper
edge
than
the
Ax
had
,
that
but
at
two
stroaks
divide●
her
Head
from
her
body
,
denying
her
last
Conscientious
request
,
to
have
a
Priest
of
her
own
Religion
to
converse
with
,
and
her
Execution
being
out
of
the
Assembly
jurisdiction
,
an
impertinent
Deane
was
procured
to
spin
out
a
long
Prayer
as
near
the
prescript
of
the
Discipline
as
he
durst
.
In
the
midst
of
this
Tyranny
upon
her
Soul
,
she
perform'd
the
office
of
a
Royal
Priest
unto
her self
,
and
having
blessed
her
Friends
,
and
forgiven
her
enemies
,
she
assum'd
Majestick
confidence
enough
to
demand
Justice
in
the
distribution
of
her
Legacies
.
All
being
done
Her
Majesty
intended
,
Virgin-Iustice
(
if
not
deflowred
by
the
violence
of
this
act
)
with
a
faint
boldness
imploying
the
Ax
which
she
scarcely
had
in
her
power
,
her
scales
dropt
down
,
and
with
shame
enough
she
held
her
trembling
hand
before
her
Eyes
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Schidam
in
Holland
.
'
Dr.
Ier.
Taylors
Epist.
Ded.
before
his
Further
Explic.
of
the
Doctr.
of
Orig.
s●n
.
Notes for div A65265e-1020
H.
Scripture
more
at
large
had
been
the
best
rule
to
reform
by
.
That
we
have
suffi●ient
.
The
supplement
from
the
Catholick
Church
which
is
indulgent
enough
to
keep
all
in
a
Christian
communion
.
Gods
judgement
and
hers
upon
Schismaticks
and
Separatists
.
The
defection
and
division
of
Churches
not
here
handled
.
The
Scotch
reformation
irregular
and
impious
.
K.
Iames
4
▪
The
Lollards
.
Accus'd
for
Rebels
.
Against
War
,
Priests
consecrating
.
Tythes
.
Episcopal
benediction
.
Excommunication
.
Sacrament
of
the
L.
Supper
.
Divorce
.
Miracles
.
Praying
in
Churches
.
Prelates
.
K.
Iames
5.
1657.
The
King
pardoned
them
,
Patrick
Hamilton
goes
for
Germany
.
Returns
to
reform
Scotland
.
Is
accused
by
Cambell
.
False
doctrine
in
his
bo●●
abou●
t●e
law
.
Faith
.
Iustification
.
Works
.
1
Cor.
6.9
.
Gal.
5.19
.
Mat.
16.27
.
Speculative
Christianity
.
Some
young
students
and
Friars
his
sect●ries
.
Logie
.
Maire
.
Friar
Arithe
.
Lindseys
advice
to
the
Archbishop
of
S.
Andrews
.
Al.
Seton
the
Kings
Confessor
p●t
from
him
.
His
Letter
to
the
King
.
Hi
retraction
.
The
Reformation
interrupted
in
Scotland
.
Begins
in
England
.
1534.
Straton
denies
Tyth-fish
.
Is
anathematized
.
Instructed
to
maintain
his
errou●
by
Dun
Arskin
.
Mat.
10.33
.
Mar.
8
38.
Matth.
23.23
.
Matth.
10.33
.
David
Straton
executed
.
Fri●r
Killors
play
.
He
and
others
burnt
.
G
Buchanan
encourageth
schism
and
rebellion
:
1539.
Escapeth
out
of
prison
.
K.
Iames
de●lines
an
interview
with
K.
Hen.
8.
A
war
between
them
.
The
Scotch
Army
defeated
.
This
discomfiture
w●s
called
Gods
fighting
agai●st
pride
for
his
own
little
flock
.
Knox
saith
God
as
ev●dently
here
fought
against
K.
Iames
as
K
B●nhadad
bu●●n
his
parralell
he
findes
out
noth●ng
for
the
detect●on
of
the
Nobles
out
of
distast
at
the
General
chosen
by
the
King
The
King
dies
.
1542.
Q
Mary
A
Protector
or
R●gen●s
by
the
Kings
will
.
They
are
rejected
by
the
Reformers
and
the
Earl
of
Arran
declared
Governour
.
The
Kings
treasur●
,
&c.
delivered
to
him
.
They
set
him
to
study
controversies
.
Shew
him
the
bloudy
Sc●ol●
,
and
instruct
him
by
it
.
Friar
Guilliame
a
pointed
to
preach
down
Superstition
.
A
Ballad
made
against
his
doctrine
by
Witsow
servant
to
the
Bishop
of
Dunkell
.
The
Cardinal
of
S.
Andrews
imprisoned
.
Set
free
.
The
Bible
in
the
vulg●r
tongue
.
The
ill
use
made
of
it
.
—
qui
estis
?
quando
,
&
unce
venistis
?
quid
in
meo
agitis
non
mei
?
—
mea
est
possessio
,
ol●m
possid●o
prior
possi●eo
........
Ego
sum
haeres
Apostolorum
....
Vos
certe
exhaeredaverunt
semper
&
as
dicaverunt
ut
extraneos
ut
inimicos
.
De
Praescr
.
c.
37.
The
contract
of
Marriage
between
Prince
Edward
of
England
and
Q
Mary
celebrated
.
The
Commissiners
questioned
for
it
.
The
Abbot
of
Paisly
and
Mr.
D.
Painter
come
from
France
with
advice
to
the
Governour
.
The
Courtiers
conf●ont
the
Reformers
.
Fr.
Guilliame
forbid
to
preach
He
and
others
Banisht
.
The
Governor
lesse
resolved
than
formerly
.
Prepares
for
war
with
England
.
An
opportunity
to
break
the
Le●gue
.
Earl
of
Cassils
kept
parrole
.
The
Scotch
ships
seiz'd
on
in
England
.
A
w●r
proclaimed
.
Earl
of
Lenox
comes
from
France
.
His
pretences
against
the
Governour
.
His
address
to
the
Q.
Dowager
.
His
heading
with
the
Reformers
.
They
challenge
the
Cardinal
.
The
Earl
leaves
them
and
resigns
himself
.
Yet
withdraws
again
and
garrisons
.
The
English
invade
Scotland
.
having
a
party
there
.
Earl
Lenox
sends
his
Apology
into
France
to
no
purpose
.
Castle
of
Glascow
taken
by
the
Governour
.
Earl
Lenox
makes
a
rash
attempt
upon
the
Hamiltons
Flies
into
England
,
where
he
mar●ies
K.
H.
Niece
.
Q.
Mother
protects
the
party
he
leaves
behinde
.
The
Scotch
Nobility
weary
of
their
English
friends
.
De
Lorge
brings
over
French
forces
.
They
with
the
Scots
march
to
the
borders
and
return
with
booty
.
The
Governour
and
Cardinal
make
a
●rogress
to
set
all
in
order
.
A
moderate
sense
of
their
proceedings
.
Sr.
Jo.
Borthwick
proc●ss'd
and
condemned
when
absent
.
He
is
unjust
as
to
the
Pope
,
and
uncharitable
to
the
best
of
that
Religion
.
His
answer
for
Bishops
marriage
not
very
apposlic
.
1
Cor.
6
12.
A
question
put
in
behalf
of
the
Romane
Church
.
The
Reformed
Churches
restrain
from
marriage
.
1
Cor.
7.7
.
S.
Paul
misinterpreted
.
Sir
John
impetuous
against
the
Pope
.
A
separation
from
all
Churches
.
In
some
cases
spiritual
men
may
have
temporal
jurisdiction
.
A
limitation
in
sequestring
Church
revenues
.
An
unchristian
comparison
.
The
Church
hath
power
to
make
Canons
The
reasons
why
.
The
Reformation
in
England
no
good
pa●tern
for
Scotland
.
Monks
in
the
primitive
Church
.
And
reverence
given
to
Relicks
.
My
opinion
of
the
senten●e
against
Sr.
J●h●
Borthwick
.
Vnlikely
stories
about
the
Bishop
of
Dunkelden
.
The
Priests
at
Dundee
.
Dean
Thomas
and
six
Friars
.
4.
Hanged
in
St
Iohns
town
.
The
Reformers
abuse
the
Image
of
St.
Francis
and
raise
tumults
.
An
impartial
censu●e
of
the
R●formed
Martyrs
.
Knox
and
Buchanan
a
●loudy
couple
.
The
Scotch
Reformation
raked
out
of
Mr.
George
Wishearts
ashes
.
His
course
of
life
at
Cambridge
.
His
return
to
Scotland
.
where
he
passed
for
a
Prophet
.
Inhibited
to
preach
.
Divers
Noblemen
encourage
him
.
The
Gentry
flock
to
him
.
He
envies
and
threatens
where
they
do
not
.
He
is
seiz'd
on
by
Earl
Bothwel
.
And
imprisoned
in
the
castle
of
St.
Andrews
.
He
is
brought
to
his
Tryall
.
He
makes
an
Apologetical
Oration
.
With
what
moderation
he
might
have
demeand
himself
.
He
cannot
pretend
to
the
same
liberty
with
the
Apostles
.
Chap.
5.29
.
Chap.
2.2
.
Nor
to
self
Ordination
.
Rev.
1.6
.
1
Pet.
2.9
.
The
abstinence
and
feasts
of
the
Church
to
be
observed
.
His
extream
insolence
in
renouncing
obedience
to
General
Councils
,
and
professing
his
neglect
to
read
their
Canons
.
What
reason
his
Iudges
might
have
to
condemn
him
.
Yet
they
are
to
be
blamed
for
the
pomp
.
And
he
for
popularity
and
want
of
charity
at
his
execution
.
His
disciples
make
great
haste
to
murder
the
Cardinal
.
They
do
it
barbarously
.
Melvins
grave
speech
in
the
act
.
—
non
solum
factum
probarunt
,
sed
&
gratulatum
ad
liberta●is
publicae
auctores
venerunt
,
quidam
etiam
vitam
●ortunasque
cum
illis
conjunxerunt
.
Knox
professeth
himself
merry
at
it
.
Prov.
14.13
.
1547.
He
goes
to
live
with
the
murderers
in
the
Castle
.
His
calling
to
the
Ministry
.
*
These
blessed
authors
of
liberty
saith
Buchanan
,
while
they
continued
in
the
Castle
tanquam
armis
p●cta
licentia
,
in
stupra
&
adulteria
ali●q
,
hominum
otio
abundantium
vitia
profusi
,
jus
&
aequum
.
He
might
have
inserted
▪
&
religionem
sua
libidine
metiebantur
Knox's
first
Sermon
.
The
Laird
of
Nyrde's
advice
upon
it
.
The
Bishops
complain
.
The
Refomers
angry
.
The
Castle
of
St.
Andrews
taken
from
them
,
they
in
it
sent
for
France
.
Knox's
various
fortune
in
his
travails
to
and
fro
.
In
his
admoniinto
to
England
,
he
abuseth
the
Emperour
,
Queen
and
Q.
Dowager
.
Who
is
made
Regent
.
The
Reformers
creep
again
into
Scotland
.
Knox
chiefly
undertakes
the
work
.
His
most
impudent
Letter
to
the
Queen
Regent
.
Knox
flies
away
to
Geneva
.
Willock
returns
in
his
place
.
Sedition
and
sacriledge
the
effects
of
his
doctrine
.
And
poisoning
some
of
the
Nobility
in
France
.
Knox
sent
for
.
Who
draws
them
into
a
Congregational
Covenant
.
After
which
they
petition
.
The
Queens
gracious
and
Christian
answer
.
Their
unchristian
ingratitude
.
A
querulous
Letter
against
the
Rom.
Catholick
Clergy
&c.
The
peoples
giving
confession
,
&c.
Knox
arrives
.
Monasteries
pillaged
,
&c.
A
sharp
Letter
sent
to
the
Q.
Regent
.
Excommunication
threatned
the
neutral
Nobility
.
Their
second
Covenant
.
They
seize
on
the
Coining
Irons
.
A
Proclamation
from
the
young
Queen
and
Dolphin
.
An
Agreement
at
Eden●urgh
.
A
third
bond
.
Strictly
observed
by
Knox
.
From
the
Q.
Regents
fortifying
Leith
th●y
take
occasion
to
traduce
.
Admonish
,
Deprive
.
Banish
her
.
All
in
vain
.
The
Brethren
disperse
.
Are
recollected
by
Knox
.
Another
Covenant
at
Edenburgh
.
An
Army
raisd
by
it
.
Q.
Regent
dieth
.
Their
inhumanity
toward
her
.
They
capitulate
with
the
young
Queen
and
King
.
A
Thanksgiving
.
Ministers
distributed
.
Over-seers
.
A
Confession
of
Faith
.
The
contents
of
it
.
Quod
apud
multos
unum
invenitur
,
non
est
erratum
,
sed
traditum
.
Tertul.
lib.
de
Praesript
▪
c.
28.
Hoc
est
verè
proprié●ue
Cathol●cam
—
si
sequamur
universitatem
antiquitatem
consencionem
vincent
.
Lyrin
.
cap.
3.
Multum
necesse
est
propter
tantos
tam
var●i
erroris
anfractus
ut
Prophetae
&
Apostolicae
interpretationis
linea
secundum
Ecclesiastici
&
Catholici
sensus
norma
dirigatur
.
Vincent
.
Lyr.
c.
2.
It
is
voted
in
Parliament
.
The
Bishops
not
hindring
it
.
Their
abominable
hypo●risie
in
sending
it
over
to
be
ratified
in
France
.
Their
confess'd
independency
on
Kings
and
Queens
.
Mat
27
29.
John
19.3
.
magis
&
ejus
animum
nuderent
,
quam
quod
quicquam
impetrare
sperarent
.
Lib
17
The
book
of
discipline
fram'd
Refus'd
by
most
of
the
Nobi●ity
.
Psal.
73.
2
Cor.
10.5
.
Subscribed
by
some
.
Great
●oy
among
them
at
the
death
of
K.
Fr.
2.
Knoxes
uncharitable
judgement
of
it
.
The
Book
of
Discipline
perused
.
Superintendents
elected
.
Brief
observations
upon
their
elections
.
The
L.
Iames
sent
into
Fra.
The
Queen
to
be
denied
the
e●er●ise
of
her
Re●igion
.
An
Ambassador
from
●rance
.
He
is
delayed
by
the
Council
.
The
loyal
Nobility
busie
.
They
are
interrupted
by
a
menacing
Supplicate
.
Lord
Iames
returns
with
monitory
Letters
from
the
Queen
.
The
French
Ambassador
denied
all
,
and
dismissed
.
The
Reformers
burn
and
spoyle
.
The
Queen
comes
over
.
Cannot
obtain
the
priviledge
of
her
private
Chapell
.
Nor
be
secure
of
her
life
if
she
e●ercise
her
Religion
.
Knox's
Sermon
.
Repented
of
,
because
not
enough
seditious
.
The
Queen
reasons
with
him
and
confounds
him
.
His
revenge
in
an
insolent
character
of
Her
Majesty
.
The
Nobility
and
Ministry
divided
about
the
Queen
and
Discipline
.
Burrows's
articles
.
The
Bishops
give
up
a
third
part
of
their
revenues
.
Huntlies
jeer
.
Knox's
censure
.
He
and
his
Brethren
supplicate
with
wonted
impudence
.
1562.
Secretary
Lethington
discourseth
with
them
.
A
Covenant
a●
Ayre
.
Complaints
about
Ministers
,
&c.
Decem.
25.
1562.
A
P●iest
seiz'd
on
for
saying
Masse
.
Encouragement
given
to
punish
such
without
leave
from
Queen
or
Council
.
The
Queen
expostulates
with
them
about
it
.
Suffers
much
against
her
interest
.
For
which
she
is
scarcely
thanked
.
E.
Murray
and
Knox
at
difference
.
Knox
question'd
by
the
Queen
.
His
Apology
▪
He
is
dismiss●d
.
Summons
the
Country
to
rescue
Armstrong
and
Cranstone
.
For
which
the
Master
of
M●xwel
quits
his
acquaintan●e
.
A
general
Assembly
where
the
Ministers
petition
.
Knox
ou●
of
humour
.
Thre●etns
the
Ass●mb●y
.
The
Ministers
disliked
by
most
.
A
s●hism
among
the
Reformers
.
A
dispute
betw●en
L.
Se.
Lething●on
and
Knox
,
who
maintains
strange
doctrine
.
Scripture
and
History
wrested
to
prove
it
.
A
caution
to
Princes
and
Subjects
concerning
the
Presbyterians
.
Their
opinions
and
practices
intended
to
be
counten●nced
by
the
Reformed
Churches
.
E.
of
Lenox
returns
into
Scotland
.
A
Parliament
call'd
in
favour
of
him
.
The
Assembly
rigid
about
Church
affairs
.
The
Queen
declares
her
intent
to
marry
the
L.
Darley
.
Knox
summons
the
Country
to
arms
and
a
suppl●cate
.
The
Queen
complices
with
their
desires
.
Sir
Iames
Carvet
intercepted
after
Mass
and
expos'd
to
mockery
and
violence
at
Edenburgh
Crosse
.
This
justice
allowed
and
again
appointed
at
the
Assize
.
1565.
The
Precise
Nobiilty
and
Clergy
assembling
about
religion
,
are
summon'd
by
the
Queen
unto
her
Marriage
.
E
Murray
refuseth
.
A
convention
at
St.
Iohnston
.
Put
off
by
the
Queen
.
And
let
fall
by
the
Brethren
,
who
divert
E.
Murr●y's
going
thither
by
a
feigned
story
.
A
Church
Assembly
held
.
Very
insolent
articles
sent
by
Commissioners
unto
the
Queen
.
Who
departeth
to
Dunkeld
,
whither
they
follow
her
.
And
appear
in
arms
at
St.
Leonard
Crag
.
The
Queens
answer
to
their
Articles
.
Argile
and
Murray
meet
.
The
Parliament
prorogued
.
L.
Darley
proclaim'd
King
.
The
Queen
disturbed
in
her
Marriagr
.
Knox's
Sermon
.
Displeas'd
the
King
.
The
Lords
divided
in
their
Councils
.
A
Letter
sent
from
that
party
to
their
Majesties
.
A
Proclamation
at
St.
Andrews
▪
The
Ministers
petition
unseasonably
for
their
meanes
.
They
pray
for
patience
,
having
not
power
enough
to
fight
.
Enquiry
made
about
the
obstruction
of
their
supplicates
.
D.
Rizio
pretended
to
be
it
,
whose
murder
they
designe
,
and
at●●mpt
to
draw
the
King
into
the
plot
.
A
Fast
procla●med
for
successe
,
Isai
58.
Suggestions
unto
the
K●ng
against
the
Queen
,
and
D.
Rizio
.
Three
Artices
propounded
by
the
Lords
unto
the
King
.
D.
Rizio
hurried
from
the
Queens
presence
,
and
murder'd
.
The
Queen
desired
to
take
this
for
good
service
.
She
is
jealous
of
the
like
violence
intended
to
her
person
.
Yet
calls
the
Lords
&c.
to
account
for
the
murder
.
*
Edenburgh
,
Tolboth
.
They
protest
against
her
proceedings
.
But
disperse
.
The
King
quits
himself
by
proclamation
of
all
guilt
.
Search
made
after
the
actors
.
An
interruption
by
the
Ministers
supplicates
.
The
demur
upon
acceptance
of
the
Quee●s
grant
.
Of
whose
denyal
they
could
have
made
better
us●
.
Iac.
6.
Iune
1566.
A
Prince
born
.
And
against
the
Brethrens
mind
baptized
by
the
Arch-Bishop
of
St.
Andrews
.
This
they
take
ill
from
the
King
.
A
Regent
o●
Protector
thought
more
proper
for
their
occasions
.
Whereupon
the
King
is
obscurely
murder'd
,
and
one
of
his
servants
strangled
.
The
Queen
again
in
solitude
.
Thinks
of
marrying
E.
Bothwel
.
Having
forecasted
all
difficulties
to
be
encountred
.
Iohn
Craig
declaims
against
it
,
and
excites
the
people
to
rebellion
.
The
Queen
demands
Edenburgh
Castle
,
and
obtains
it
on
an
hard
condition
,
for
the
person
of
the
Prince
,
the
original
of
her
ruine
.
They
address
now
no
more
supplicates
.
Isai.
22.23
▪
Their
malitious
calumnie
of
the
Queen
,
and
E.
Bothwell's
resolution
to
murder
the
young
Prince
.
The
Queen
raiseth
an
Army
.
Yet
proclaims
great
concessions
.
They
besiege
Her
Majesty
at
Borthwike-Castle
.
Thence
they
go
to
Edenburgh
.
Yet
incline
to
disband
,
but
are
prevented
by
the
Queens
approach
.
An
unfortunate
Treaty
by
the
French
Agents
means
.
The
Queens
Army
discouraged
.
Her
Majesties
discourse
with
L.
Kirkaldic
of
Grange
,
while
E.
Bothwell
slips
away
.
Her
horrid
entert●inment
in
the
Rebells
Army
.
She
is
thrust
into
an
Inne
at
Edenburgh
,
and
guarded
.
Thence
posted
away
to
the
Isle
of
Lochlevin
.
The
Ministers
●ssemble
.
Four
Commissioners
deputed
by
them
to
summon
in
the
Hamilton's
,
&c.
Articles
agreed
on
by
the
Rebells
.
They
are
yet
p●rplex'd
in
their
thoughts
what
to
do
with
the
Queen
.
Queen
Elizabeths
emulation
▪
&c.
made
her
countenance
some
of
their
proceedings
.
Their
ingratitude
and
scorn
return'd
upon
her
.
The
Queen
moved
to
q●it
her
Crown
,
and
permit
Murray
to
be
Regent
.
K
Iames
6.
The
Prince
Crowned
at
Sterlin
.
K.
Iames
6.
Murray
returned
out
of
France
,
and
proclaimed
Regent
.
The
Queen
escapes
out
of
prison
.
Her
last
ill
success
in
Battail
.
She
escapes
to
England
for
protection
.
Queen
Elizabeth's
three
Desires
unto
the
Regent
.
Queen
of
Scots
demands
a
hearing
about
her
last
marriage
.
All
discussed
in
the
Parliament
at
Perth
.
Whence
the
two
Queens
reeeive
little
satisfaction
.
They
demurre
about
E.
Bothwell
.
Pelkarne
sent
with
their
apology
to
Queen
Elizabeth
.
Their
subtilty
in
making
a
diff●rence
between
the
two
Queens
by
much
falsehood
mixed
with
little
truth
.
Q.
of
Scots
and
D.
of
Korfolk
s●cured
.
Regent
M●rray
kill'd
.
The
Brethren
prosecute
revenge
.
A
sc●upulous
question
put
to
them
.
T●eir
applicatlons
to
Q.
Eliz.
rejected
.
They
confer
regall
power
upon
the
Earl
of
Lenox
.
Divest
him
again
of
it
,
and
make
him
Regent
.
Q
:
of
Scots
by
all
means
endeavours
her
liberty
.
Queen
Eliz
:
giveth
fair
answers
to
her
,
and
her
intercessors
.
Q.
E●izabeths
Councill
how
affected
at
this
time
.
K.
Iames
5.
They
involve
her
in
a
multitude
of
difficulties
.
She
calls
the
Scots
to
accoun●
about
the
deposition
of
their
Queen
.
They
exhib●te
a
large
Remonstrance
rebellious
and
antimonarchiall
enough
.
K
Iames
6.
1571.
Queen
Eliz
:
dislikes
it
.
Yet
persists
in
her
high
demand
from
the
Qu
:
of
Scots
Commissioners
.
Their
modest
answer
.
L
:
Keepers
sharp
reply
.
K.
Iemes
5.
A
truce
between
the
divided
parties
in
Scotland
,
made
by
Q
:
Eliz.
The
Regent
and
his
do
notwithstanding
what
they
please
.
They
hang
up
the
Ar●h-Bishop
of
St
:
Andrews
.
K
Iames
6.
Revenge
taken
upon
the
Regent
.
They
make
the
E
of
Marre
his
successor
,
who
is
so
vexed
by
them
,
that
he
shortly
dies
with
gr●ef
.
The
Parliaments
fierce
proposition
to
Q
Eliz.
about
the
Queen
of
Scots
.
Rejected
.
A
resolution
taken
by
the
Rebells
in
Scotland
fatall
to
the
Queen
and
her
party
.
Divers
executed
in
England
.
The
Duke
of
Norfolk
Beheaded
.
The
Brethren
well-pleased
at
the
successe
of
their
designes
,
and
approach
of
the
Ax
so
near
their
Queen
.
To
whom
Commissioners
are
sent
to
expostulate
.
The
French
interceding
,
are
answered
with
instances
from
their
own
and
other
Nations
.
Momoranchies
propositions
not
hearkened
to
.
The
Assemblies
domineer
while
no
Regent
in
Scotland
.
Q.
Elizabeth
calls
upon
them
to
chuse
one
,
They
take
E
:
Morton
as
fittest
for
their
purpose
.
The
young
E
:
of
Marre
becomes
Guardian
to
the
King
.
Orders
made
by
the
new
Regent
.
The
Queens
party
in
Scotland
faint
.
Edenburgh
Castle
taken
by
the
help
of
the
English
Forces
.
The
Scotch
army
disbanded
.
Bishop
of
Rosse
banish'd
England
upon
the
Scots
importunity
.
Morton
cannot
obtain
a
league
&c.
with
England
.
Queen
of
Scots
a●cused
of
cont●●ving
a
Match
.
E
Castleherault
dies
with
grief
.
Don
Iohn
of
Austria
faileth
in
his
design
to
marry
the
Q.
of
Scots
.
And
dyeth
.
Morton
deposed
from
his
Regency
.
Twelve
appointed
to
assist
the
King
in
governing
,
Morton
one
of
them
,
but
defeated
in
his
purpose
to
do
all
.
The
King
begins
to
shew
himself
to
the
terror
of
the
Assembly
.
Preserves
the
Bishops
in
some
part
of
their
Rights
and
revenues
whereof
the
other
would
deprive
them
.
2
B
:
of
Discip.
cannot
ye●
pass
in
Parliament
D
:
of
Alanson
attempts
a
marriage
with
Q
:
Eliz.
D.
of
Lenox
,
and
E
:
of
Arran
set
at
difference
by
the
Assembly
.
Reconciled
by
the
King
.
Then
they
accuse
Lenox
to
Q
:
Elizabeth
.
Who
demands
to
have
him
banish'd
.
The
King
will
not
part
with
him
.
Humes
his
Agent
hears
of
this
from
the
L
:
Treasurer
in
England
.
Morton
questioned
.
Randolphs
sent
to
intercede
,
but
prevails
not
▪
Arrogant
Assembly
Acts.
1579.
No
Christianity
allowed
but
in
Scotland
,
and
where
is
a
conf●rmity
in
Religion
unto
the
Kirk
.
Th
K
:
checks
th●m
.
They
contest
with
him
by
a
Committee
.
And
extort
his
subscription
to
the
Negative
Confession
,
with
a
c●mmand
of
the
like
from
all
.
*
This
is
that
Craig
,
and
this
that
confession
which
K
:
Iames
reflects
upon
in
Hampton-Court
conference
,
saying
,
That
with
his
,
I
renounce
and
abhor
his
detestations
and
abrenuntiations
he
did
to
amaze
the
simple
people
,
that
they
not
able
to
conceive
all
those
things
,
utterly
gave
over
all
,
falling
back
to
Popery
,
or
remaining
still
in
their
former
ignorance
,
yea
if
I
,
saith
his
Majesty
,
should
have
been
bound
to
his
form
,
the
confession
of
my
Faith
must
have
been
in
my
Table-book
,
not
in
my
head
.
A
publick
stratagem
practis'd
by
the
Brethren
.
The
Queen
of
Scots
directs
her
thoughts
to
an
higher
kingdom
and
means
to
resign
all
up
to
her
Son
.
Whereupon
the
Brethren
put
all
into
confusion
.
The
King
invited
to
the
Castle
of
Ruthen
,
and
detained
prisoner
.
They
press
him
most
insolently
to
do
their
business
.
Buchanan
deserts
them
,
and
repents
of
what
he
had
done
heretofore
.
Queen
of
Scots
complains
to
Queen
Eliz.
Queen
Eliz
:
very
uncertain
what
to
do
.
Sends
two
Commissioners
to
the
Queen
of
Scots
.
The
Disciplinarians
make
new
jealousies
about
Fa
:
Holt.
Qu
:
Eliz
:
by
her
Agents
Courts
King
Iames
kindness
.
D
:
Lenoxs's
death
.
King
Iames
makes
an
escape
.
Offers
pardon
to
all
that
ask
it
.
Sir
Francis
Walsingham
sent
to
counsell
him
.
The
Assemblies
justifie
their
late
Treason
.
And
commit
new
.
Gowrie
&c
▪
attempt
again
the
surprisal
of
the
King
.
But
himself
is
seised
on
,
&c.
Walsinghams
Letters
not
observed
by
E
:
Hunsdon
.
E
:
Gowrie
beh●aded
.
Letters
feigned
in
the
n●me
of
the
Queen
of
S.o.s.
Vpon
whi●h
divers
Nobles
are
questioned
.
And
the
Iudges
for
their
severity
against
Papists
.
Throckmorton
hanged
.
A
reconciliation
between
the
two
Queens
prevented
:
An
●ssociation
in
England
.
Queen
of
Scots
sees
a
necessity
of
complying
with
Q
:
Eliz
:
The
Scots
Presbytery
foreseeing
the
effect
of
it
,
declaim
●gainst
her
,
their
King●
and
Council
in
the
Pulpit
.
Vpon
their
flighting
the
Kings
summons
they
are
inhibited
,
and
Episcopacy
setled
.
The
Kings
supr●macy
established
by
Act
of
Parliament
.
Hereupon
●ivers
Mi●isters
take
their
flight
.
Q
Eliz
:
restrains
●heir
violence
▪
but
counten●nceth
them
too
much
.
Earl
of
Arran
offers
a
meeting
with
L
:
Hunsdon
upon
the
borders
The
fugitives
proscribed
Patrike
Grey
sent
Ambassador
for
England
.
Qu
:
of
Scots
practises
too
much
for
her self
.
And
Leicester
against
her
and
her
party
.
Queen
Eliz
:
requires
a
reformation
of
Scots
Bishops
.
Earl
of
Northumberland
,
●urdered
in
the
Tower
.
Sir
Edward
Wotton
sent
Ambassador
into
Scotland
.
E
:
of
Bedford
slain
at
a
meeti●g
u●on
the
borders
.
L
:
Fernihurst
imprisoned
.
E
:
of
Arran
confined
.
Qu
:
Eliz
demands
their
persons
,
is
denyed
.
She
sends
home
the
Scottish
Fugitives
.
A
rebellious
army
raised
by
them
.
E
:
of
Arran
accuseth
P
:
Grey
of
Treason
.
Is
besieged
,
and
narrowly
escapes
.
The
Rebells
answer
to
L
:
Grey
.
They
capitulate
and
h●ve
what
they
ask
of
the
Ki●g
.
A
league
renewed
with
England
.
A
considerable
Article
had
it
been
agreed
and
kept
heretofore
.
Another
about
Religion
,
the
ambiguity
whereof
doth
more
hurt
than
good
.
A
Conspiracy
in
England
discovered
.
Many
executed
for
it
.
The
Queen
of
Scots
how
far
concerned
in
it
.
Walsingham
and
her
own
Secretaries
charge
more
upon
her
then
she
owns
.
She
is
prejudged
too
soon
by
persons
uncommission'd
.
The
more
prudent
,
yet
as
loyal
grue
milder
censures
.
Leicester
wo●l●
have
her
poi●on'd
.
Walsingham
not
prevailed
with
to
consent
.
Yet
d●rects
the
contrivers
to
a
methodical
proceeding
.
Queen
Elizabeth
yeilds
to
their
perswasions
for
signing
a
Writ
o●
Delegacy
.
The
Queen
of
Scots
prudent
d●meanour
reward
the
Delegates
at
Fotheringham
Castle
.
Lord
Treasur●r
rigid
wit●
her
.
Her
Majesty
answ●rs
him
accordingly
.
Submits
to
a
Tryal
,
but
on
condition
.
Iustice
Gawdies
too
particular
n●rration
.
The
Queen
protests
against
it
.
Nave
disclaims
his
p●pers
.
The
English
Parlia●ent
passeth
sent●nce
according
to
the
sense
of
the
Delegates
.
But
Q
:
Eliz
:
makes
no
hast
to
signe
the
Bill
.
King
Iames
endeavours
to
pre●erve
his
Mother
,
but
●ann●t
.
Commands
the
Ministers
to
pr●y
in
p●blick
for
her
,
who
deny
him
and
her
that
respect
.
Pa●rike
Greys
proverb
to
Qu
,
E●iz
.
Who
is
troubled
in
mind
about
her
execution
.
V●certain
instructions
given
to
Davison
with
the
feigned
Bill
.
He
is
fined
and
imprisoned
for
g●ing
be●ond
t●e
meaning
of
them
.
The
Queen
very
reso●ute
and
●eligious
at
her
death
.
A
Priest
denied
her
.
Fletcher
Dean
of
Peterburgh
.
Iustice
blushed
when
she
suffered
.