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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69648	A detection of the actions of Mary Queen of Scots concerning the murther of her husband, and her conspiracy, adultery, and pretended marriage with the Earl Bothwell and a defence of the true Lords, maintainers of the King's Majesties action and authority / written in Latin by G. Buchanan ; translated into Scotch and now made English.; De Maria Scotorum regina. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.	1689 (1689)	Wing B5282; ESTC R4626	77,119	81

A DETECTION Of the ACTIONS OF MARY Queen of Scots CONCERNING The Murther of Her HUSBAND and Her Conspiracy Adultery and pretended Marriage with the Earl BOTHWEL And a Defence of the True LORDS Maintainers of the KING'S Majesties Action and Authority Written in Latin by G. BUCHANAN Translated into Scotch And now made English. LONDON Printed and are to be Sold by Richard Ianeway in Queen's Head-Ally near Pater-Noster-Row 1689. To the Reader I Think it necessary for the Reader 's better understanding the following History to acquaint him that James the Fifth having lost his two Sons both in one Week a little before he was slain at Flodden-Field left no other Heir but Mary a Child of four days old which he never had seen This Child was accepted and at five years of Age the Scots seeing they were likely to make better Merchandise of her in France than with us in England tho we then proffered high sent her into France and at Twelve married her to the Dolphin afterward Francis the First who at two Years left her a Widow and so she returned to Scotland where she found her Mother weltring in her Cruelties a Guise and wasting and gathering with all her might She being remov'd the Queen came to be Master of her self and soon after in a Gayety took Henry Lord Darley Son to the Earl of Lenox one of the goodliest Personages accounted of his time to her Husband But it seems her first flames being allaied there was one David Rize either had been or was grown more into Favor so that the King grew every day discountenanced And whereas before in the Coins as many of them I have seen comparing the Years it was in the end of one Year Henricus Maria c. it was in the beginning of the other Maria Henricus c. And instead of receiving the Honor of a King he was sent away from the Court without either Train or Necessaries This with other Informations of the Queens Carriages and the Incouragement of some of the Nobility brought him back to Edenburgh where finding David in the Queens Company snatch'd him out of her Presence giving her some words of Comfort and Assurance for she was then great with Child and with some of his Assistance sent him into another Life This Minion being gone Bothwel came into Favor and that how swiftly and powerfully you may perceive by the Letters annexed to the Discourse but her hate to her Husband was so exasperated that both her and Bothwel's Malice and Wits made his Destruction their chief aim Her Carriage to him grew every day more and more strange she augmented her Neglect in so much that at the Christning of that Son who was after a Plague to this Nation he was not suffered to receive the least Honors or Addresses She being again at liberty then thought to bestir her self about the compassing of Revenge Poyson was attempted but the strength of his Youth overcame it which the accursed Woman seeing flattered him into Agreement and presently lull'd him into Credulity so that he came again to Edenburgh and was lodg'd in a little House near the Palace but out of all hearing Hither she brought her own rich Bed and frequently visited him with all shews of Affection But one Sunday Night she discovered her self and fetching a deep Sigh O says she this time twelve Month was David Rize slain This it seems came from her heart for within a few days the unfortunate young Man as an Inferiae to the Ghost of a Fidler was strangled in his Bed the House blown up and his Body thrown out into the Garden the Queens rich Bed being a day or two before removed Now was she at liberty for Bothwel but there was one Obstacle he had a Wife already but she poor Woman must be forced to sue out a Divorce which was procured in eight days So that now the way was smooth and an Ambassador with fine penn'd Instructions sent to the King of France to give an account of her new marriage But all this could not still the Crys of the People whose impatience grief and rage at that time particulars whereof I have seen in an authentick Scotch Diurnal of that date was such that Bothwel was forced to suborn some People to accuse him but he having Creatures enough few daring to witness and many Iudges of his party was acquitted But at last the honest part of the Nobility sensible of those miscarriages made a Head broke Bothwel's Forces put him to flight took her Prisoner and made her resign up the Government to her Son all this before the said Ambassador who was sent into France had had his first Audience then a Child in the Cradle known afterwards by the name of James the Sixth This is as much as I can say will give light to the Book that follows 'T was written by the most excellent Pen of that Age a Man as Sir Philip Sidney justly calls him of a piercing Wit consummate Learning and careful Observation of things which made him known to the greatest Princes of his Time and dear to his own This made him School-master to his King who imploy'd him in the weightiest Transactions at home and abroad made him Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland tho he never sought himself nor could withdraw from the ancient Parcimony and Frugality he dying very poor So that it is not to be supposed that a Person so well qualified for knowledge in these things and of a Reputation so untouch'd would have adventur'd to divulge matters of this nature in a place where most men might have call'd him Lyar. But certainly both in his History which he dedicated to the Son and in this Piece which be penn'd in the name of the Lords if there were any fault it was too broad And tho worthy Master Cambden in his Annals tells us He wished he might have wiped out all that he had writ against Mary Queen of Scots with his Blood yet when I consider the Times he writ in and the general silence of it among the Scots and the disgrace that Buchanan died in when King James came to maturity methinks I cannot give so much credit in this to that famous Historian as in other things though he might mendacium dicere not mentiri And tho Caussin in his Holy Court make her a Heroine nay a Saint and Strada in his De Bello Belgico digresses to celebrate her with immoderate praises yet certainly any man that would guide his historical faith aright will much rather choose to believe men either Actors in a Business or neighbors to it and such as receive assurance from their eyes than men that are remote and such as are necessitated to see through the false or broken light of Information especially Persons hid in Cells and excluded from Business absolutely devoted to a Religion to which she was an Appuy and absolute Enemy to that Power under which she receiv'd just Sentence