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A57983	A relation of the death of David Rizzi chief favorite to Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland; who was killed in the apartment of the said Queen on the 9th of March 1565. Written by the Lord Ruthen [sic], one of the principal persons concerned in that action. Published from an original manuscript. Together with an account of David Rizzi, faithfully translated from Geo. Buchanan's History of Scotland.	Ruthven, Patrick Ruthven, Lord, d. 1566.; Buchanan, George, 1506-1582. Rerum Scoticarum historia. English. Selections. aut	1699 (1699)	Wing R2397B; ESTC R218070	27,471	52

seek out her mind And in the same time he daily sent to the Lord Ruthen saying that he could not abide Davie any longer and if his Slaughter was not hastned he would slay him himself yea tho it were in the Queen's Majesty 's own Chamber The said Lord Ruthen counselled him to the contrary and thought it not decent that he should put hand on such a mean Person yet always the King could not be content without the said Lord Ruthen affixed a day when the said Davie should be slain The said Lord considering with himself that it was not convenient nor honourable to slay the said Davie notwithstanding the Offences he had made but rather to take him and give him Judgment by the Nobility the King's Majesty answered it was cumbersome to tarry in such a Cause but always he could be contented that he were taken and hanged or dispatched otherwise In the mean time the King and Queen's Majesties rode to Seaton the King so burning in his desire towards the Slaughter of David he sent divers privy Writings written in his own hand and also Messages by tongue to George Douglas to be shewed to the Lord Ruthen to have all things in readiness against his repairing to Edinburgh towards the Slaughter of David or otherwise he would put the same in execution with his own hands In the mean time the said Lord Ruthen was practising with the Earl of Morton who was the King's near Kinsman and with the Lord Lindsey because his Wife was a Douglas and of consanguinity to the King and with a great number of Barons Gentlemen and Freeholders to assist the King in such Affairs as he had to do and then they should have their Religion freely established conform to Christ's Book and to the Articles that the King had subscribed to the Lords And after the King's return out of Seaton he directed George Douglas to the said Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthen to see what day should be appointed with place and time for the performance of the Enterprise against David The said Earl and Lord sent answer to the King and declared they should have a sufficient number ready against Friday or Saturday the 8th or 9th of March to do what he pleased and enquired of the King what time he would have it the ratherest performed for according to the said Earl's and Lord's opinion they thought it best to take time when David should be in his own Chamber in the Morning or in passing through the Close which the King refused simpliciter and said he could not be well taken in his own Chamber nor no time in the Morning by reason that at night he tarried late with the Queen's Majesty he lay in the over Cabinet and otherwhiles in Signior Francisco's Chamber and sometimes in his own to which he had sundry Backdoors and Windows that he might escape at and if so it were all were lost Therefore he would have him taken at the time of the supping sitting with her Majesty at the Table that he might be taken in her own presence because she had not entertained him her Husband according to her accustomed manner nor as she ought of Duty To the which the said Earl and Lords were very loth to grant and gave many reasons to the contrary that it was better to have been done out of her presence not in the same Notwithstanding no reason might avail but the King would have him taken in her Majesty's Presence and devised the manner himself as after followeth That upon the Saturday at Supper-time the said Earl of Morton Lord Ruthen and Lord Lindsey should have ready so many as would be Assistants and Partakers with the King in their Houses against he should send them word and so soon as he sent them word that the Earl of Morton should come in and come up to the Queen 's utter Chamber and a Company with him and the said Lord Ruthen to come through the King 's secret Chamber and that the King would pass up before by a privy Passage to the Queen's Chamber and open the Door wherethrough the said Lord Ruthen and his Company might enter and that the King himself should be speaking with the Queen's Majesty sitting at supper the remanent Barons and Gentlemen to be in the Court of the Palace for keeping of the Gates and defending of the Close in case any of the Lords or Officers would endeavour to gain-stand the King's Enterprize The said Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthen having consideration of the King's Devise towards the taking of Davie in the Queen's Majesty's Chamber were loth to grant thereto yet the King would not otherwise but have it done as he had devised The said Earl and Lords considering he was a young Prince and having a lusty Princess to lie in his Arms afterwards who might perswade him to deny all that was done for his Cause and to alledg that others perswaded him to the same thought it necessary to have security thereupon and a Band was made in the King's name to the Earls Lords Barons Freeholders Merchants and Craftsmen declaring all that was to be done was his own Devise Invention and Fact and bound and obliged himself his Heirs and Successors to them their Heirs and Successors to keep them skeithless and unmolested or troubled for the taking and executing of Davie in the Queen's presence or otherwise like as the Band more at large specified hereafter word by word Be it kend to all men by these present Letters We Henry by the Grace of God King of Scotland and Husband to the Queen's Majesty for so much we having consideration of the gentle and good nature with many other good Qualities in her Majesty we have thought pity and also think it great conscience to us that are her Husband to suffer her to be abused or seduced by certain privy Persons wicked and ungodly not regarding her Majesty's Honour Ours nor the Nobility thereof nor the Common-weal of the same but seeking their own Commodity and privy Gains especially a Stranger Italian called Davie which may be the occasion of her Majesty's Destruction Ours the Nobility and Commonweal without hasty remedy be put thereto which we are willing to do and to that effect we have devised to take these privy Persons Enemies to her Majesty Us the Nobility and Commonwealth to punish them according to their Demerits and in case of any difficulty to cut them off immediately and to take and slay them wherever it happeneth And because we cannot accomplish the same without the assistance of others therefore have we drawn certain of our Nobility Earls Lords Barons Freeholders Gentlemen Merchants and Craftsmen to assist us in our Enterprise which cannot be finished without great hazard And because it may chance that there be sundry great Personages present who may endeavour to gain-stand our Enterprise where-through some of them may be slain and likewise of ours where-through a perpetual Feud may be contracted betwixt the one

she had read enough and commanded her to stop which Action was accounted by all to be rather insolent than new for they were not ignorant how arrogantly he used to carry himself to her frequently reproving her with more sharpness than her Husband durst adventure to do Few days after this the Cause of the Exiles was warmly debated in Parliament where some to gratify the Queen moving they might be punished as Traytors and others affirming they had done nothing which deserved so great Severity David in the mean time surrounded the Members one by one and endeavoured to penetrate the intention of each towards those that were banished if he should be chosen President by the rest of the Assembly not doubting openly to discover that the Queen would have them condemn'd and that whoever should oppose her would not only take pains to no purpose but incur her High Displeasure A RELATION Of the Death of DAVID RIZZI Chief Favorite to MARY Queen of Scots c. Written by the Lord RUTHEN IN the first the Lord Ruthen of Scotland a Man of forty and six Years was visited by the Hand of God with great trouble and sickness having two Infirmities the one called the Inflammation of the Liver and the other the Consumption of the Reins and Kidneys wherethrough he kept his Bed continually by the space of three months and was under the cure of Physicians as of the Queen's French Doctor Dr. Preston and Thomas Thompson Apothecary and was so feebled and weakned through the Sickness and Medicines that scarcely he might walk twice the length of his Chamber unsitting down In this mean time the King Husband to the Queen's Majesty of Scotland conceived hatred against an Italian called David Riccio and about the 10th day of February the said King sent his dear Friend and Kinsman George Douglas Son to Archibald sometime Earl of Angus and declared to the said Lord Ruthen how that the said David Riccio had abused him in many sorts and lately had staied the Queen's Majesty from giving him the Crown Matrimonial of Scotland which her Majesty had promised to him divers times before Besides many other Wrongs that the said David had done to him which he could not bear with longer and behoved to be revenged thereof And because the said Lord Ruthen was one of the Nobility that he confided and trusted most unto in respect that his Children and he were Sisters Children therefore he desired his Counsel and Advice what way was best to be revenged on the said David The said Lord Ruthen hearing the Message aforesaid gave answer to George Douglass that he could give no counsel in that Matter in respect he knew the King's Youth and Facility for he had sundry of the Nobility that had given him counsel for his own Honour and Weal and immediately he revealed the same again to the Queen's Majesty who reproved them with great anger and contumelious words So the said Lord Ruthen would have no medling with his Proceedings until the time he could keep his own counsel The said George departed with the said Lord's Answer to the King about the 12th of February The said King hearing the Answer was very miscontented and said It is a sore case that I can get none of the Nobility that will assist me against yonder false Villain Davie The said George answered The said Fault was in your self that cannot keep your own counsel Then the King took a Book and swore thereon that what Counsel soever the Lord Ruthen should give him he would not reveal neither to the Queen's Majesty nor to any others and immediately directed the said George to the said Lord Ruthen again declaring what Oath the King had made Notwithstanding the said Lord Ruthen was eight days thereafter e're he would give any counsel therein howbeit the said King sent the said George to him every day three or four times After eight days were past the which was toward the 20th day of February the said Lord Ruthen perceiving that the King 's whole Intent was but only the slaughter of Davie the said Lord resolved in his mind and considered that he had a good time to labour for certain of the Nobility his Brethren that were banished in the Realm of England and in Argile and specially the Earls of Argile Murray Glencarn and Rothes the Lord Boyd and Ocheltrie and Lairds of Pittarro and Grange with many other Gentlemen and Barons Wherefore so soon as the said George was directed again from the King to him the said Lord Ruthen answered That he could not meddle with the King's Affairs without that he would bring home the Noblemen before rehearsed who were banished only for the Word of God And after long reasoning and divers days travelling the King was contented that they should come home into the Realm of Scotland so that the said Lord Ruthen would make him sure that they would be his and set forward all his Affairs The said Lord gave answer to the King and bad him make his own Security and that he should cause it to be subscribed by the aforesaid Earls Lords and Barons Immediately thereafter the King directed the said George Douglass to the said Lord Ruthen with certain Articles which he desired the said Lord to put in form of Writing to be subscribed by the Lords banished the which the said Lord caused to be put in form And having consideration that the said King desir'd them to be bound to him the said Lord caused to be drawn certain Articles in the said Lords Names for the King's part towards them which the King himself reformed with his own hand in the Margent like as it is to be produced The Articles being penned for both Parties and the King reading and considering the same he was contented therewith and subscribed his part and delivered it to the said Lord Ruthen who sent the other Articles to the Earl of Murray and the remanent being within England and to the Earl of Argile and the remanent being with him in the West who subscribed the same and sent them to the said Lord Ruthen to be kept till their meeting with the King and every one to have their own part The Tenour whereof followeth Certain ARTICLES to be fulfilled by James Earl of Murray Archibald Earl of Argile Alexander Earl of Glencarne Andrew Earl of Rothes Robert Lord Boyd Andrew Lord Ocheltrie and their Complices to the Noble and Mighty Prince Henry King of Scotland Husband to our Sovereign Lady Which Articles the said Persons offer with most humility lowliness and service to the said Noble Prince for whom to God they pray c. Imprimis THE said Earls Lords and their Complices shall become and by the Tenour hereof become true Subjects Men and Servants to the Noble and Mighty Prince Henry by the Grace of God King of Scotland and Husband to our Sovereign Lady That they and all others that will do for them shall take a leyal and true part with