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A17102	Ane detectioun of the duinges of Marie Quene of Scottes thouchand the murder of hir husband, and hir conspiracie, adulterie, and pretensed mariage with the Erle Bothwell. And ane defence of the trew Lordis, mainteineris of the Kingis graces actioun and authoritie. Translatit out of the Latine quhilke was written by G.B.; De Maria Scotorum regina. English	Buchanan, George, 1506-1582.; Wilson, Thomas, 1525?-1581.	1571 (1571)	STC 3981; ESTC S106062	74,775	174

refusing of the Iudges the lyke seueritie was vsid for the murderers tham selfis made the choise of the Iudges ▪ quhen there was na man to take exceptioun against tham The Erle of Cassiles willing raither to pay hys amercemēt as the maner is than to be a Iudge in the matter quhen he had stoode in it a quhile and wald nat appeare at the Quenis request manacing yea though sche sent hir ring for credit baith of hir earnest prayer and threatning at length constraynit with feare of exile and punitioun he yelded There sate the Iudges nat chosin to iudge but piked out to acquite the cause procedit wythout any aduersarie a triall in a matter of life deith quhen there was neuer ane accuser but suborned by the partie accused so as a man might well thinke it not the triall of a cause in a court but the playing of ane enterlude vpon a stage In all this recklesnesse of all thinges yet behald I pray you of quhat force is the testimony of conscience on either side Sodenly vnluked for there starteth vp a youngman of the Erle of Lennor house in quhame the respect of dutie vanquishit the feare of danger This youngman made ane open protestatioun that the same assembly of Iudges was nat lawfull bycause in thair proceding there was nathing done according to law nor order At thys saying the Iudges were all striken in sic a feare that thay all by and by with one mouth made protestatioun with promise that it should nat hereafter be preiudiciall to tham in that thay acquited a prisoner quhame na man accused and that thay had acquitit him of a murder allegit to be committit the ix day of February quhen the kyng was slayne the x. day This is that saim nobill triall and iudgement quhairby Bothwell was not cleansed of the crime but as it weir washed with sowters blacking and sa mair comely prepared to goe a wooing to wed the Quene and sa to become a husband to hir greater schame than he was befoir an adulterer To make vp yet the full perfectioun and encrease of this iolly acquitall there was set vp a writyng in the most notorious place of the court that though Bothwell had by iust triall and iudgement bene lawfully cleansed and acquitit of the murder quhairof he had ben falsely accusit yet for mair manifest declaratioun of his innocēcie to the hale world he was redy to trie it in combat if any man of gude fame and a gentilman borne would charge him with the murder of the king The next day after there was ane that set vp a bill in open place and offred to accept the combat sa that there might for the battell be sic a place appointed quhairin the partie mought safely without feare disclose his name Quhile maters and mens affections were in this styrre the parlament assembled There after thay had for viij dayes together in maner done nathing but treated of reuersing y e iugement quhairby the Erle Huntleyes father had ben attaintit of treason for restoryng the sonne to hys fathers possessions and honors there were alswa certaine plausible thyngis grauntit to please the pepill and specially for the Kirke namely the repellyng of certain lawes of popish tyrannie made for punisching of sic as durst ones mutter agaynst the decrées of the sée of Rome Though these thingis were acceptable among the commonaltie yet there remainit ane thyng quhilk na lesse vexed the quene thē offended the pepil that is to say hir cōpanieng with Bothwel not altogether sa openly as she wald faine haue had it and yet not sa secretly but that the pepill perceiuit it for that all mens eyes were gazyng vpō tham For quhairas Bothwel had a wife of his owne to tarry for a diuorce was thoght an ouerlang delay and in the meane time the quene could nouther openly auow to haue him nor secretly enioy hym and yit in no wise could be without hym some shift though nat an honest ane yit a shift forsothe must be deuised And quhen thay could nat thinke vpon a better it semit tham a maruelous fine inuentioun god wote that Bothwell should rauishe and take away the Quene by force and sa saue hir honour Sa within a few daies after as the quene was returning from Stereline Bothwell forceably toke hir by the way and cariit hir to Dunbarre whether with hir will or agaynst hir will euery man may easily perceiue by hir awin letters that sche wrote to him by the way as sche was in hir iourney But howsoeuer it weir that the wrong of the rauishment might be defaced with honest colour of mariage Bothwels wife was compelled in twa courtis to sue a diuorce against hir husband Befoir Iudges delegate appointit by the quenis authorifie to haif iurisdictioun in sic causis the wife accuseth the husband of adulterie quhilke with tham was a iust cause of diuorce Befoir Popishe Iudges quho in deed by law weir forbidden yet by speciall dispensatioun of the Bischop of S. Andrew weir for the hearing of this cause anely permitted Bothwell was accusit that befoir his mariage with hys wife he had committit fornicatioun with his wiues neare kinswoman howbeit all this quhile thay kept close the Popis Bull by quilk the same offence was dispensit with The diuorce was posted forwart without any slacknes either in the witnesses or in the Iudges Within the space of x. dayes the matter was taken in hand began ▪ and intented ioynit vnto tryit and iudged befoir baith the companies of Iudges Quhen the sentence of diuorce was geuen and sent to Dunbar Bothwell by and by assembleth together frō all pairtes all his friendis his seruantis and reteiners to conuey to Edenburgh the quene quho wauld then nedes take vpon hir to be a prisoner Quhen thay weir thus gatherid together the maist pairt of tham in armour by the way as thay weir conducting the quene many of tham weir sodenly striken in some feare least in time to cum they might be chargit for halding the quene as prisoner and that though there were none vther euidence yet this ane thing would be profe enough against tham that in time of peace thay were found armid about hir Quhile thay were in thys doubt in the middest of thair iorney thay all threw away thair launces and in mair peasabill array at least in schew thay conueyed hir to the castell of Edenburgh quhilke castell was also the same tyme at Bothwelles commaundement There sche taried with Bothwell quhile the banes weir publishing Then sche came downe out of the Castell into the towne to the commoun assembly of the Iudges and there pronouncit hir selfe to be frée and at hir awne libertie And sa at length within viij dayes sche finished that vnmatrimoniall matrimonie all gude men sa farre detesting or at least grudgingly foreiudging the vnlucky end thereof that Monsieur do

as if thay regardit nat these thynges yet sometyme the rumors sa nerely prickit them to the quick that thay could by no meanes hyde thair anger Thairfoir discontinuyng thair searchyng for the kynges death they begyn a new enquirie farre mair earnest against the authors of bukes and the sclanderers of Bothwell as thay tham selues termed tham These examinations wer sa rigorously put in excutioun as nouther money nor labor of men nor horses was spared about it All the paynters were callit togither all that earned thair liuing by writyng wer assembled to iudge of the pictures and bukes that had ben set out And if ane painter had nat of hys awn accord confessit that it was he of quhoes worke thay inquirit an vther that was not gilty therof but touchit a litill with a slight suspicioun had suffred for it There was published a proclamatioun agreable with the maner of the Inquisition quhairin it was made death nat onely to set out any sic mater but also to rede it beyng set out by ane vther But these persones that with thretenyng of death practised to stoppe the speche of the pepill yet nat satisfiit with maist cruell murder of the king cessit nat thair hatrit against him quhē he was dead All hys gudes armure horses apparell vther furniture of his house the quene diuidit some to tham that slew hym and some to hys fathers auncient deadly foes as if thay had vpon atteinder come to hir by forfaiture and hys fathers tenantes as though thay had ben alswa part of hir conquerit booty she sa scraped till she brought tham in a maner to extreme beggerie But this was a strange example of crueltie and sic as neuer was heard of befoir that as she had satisfied her heart with hys slaughter sa she wold nedes fede hir eyes with the sight of hys bodie slayne For she lang beheld nat onely without grefe but alswa with gredy eyes hys dead corps the gudlyest corps of any gentleman that euer liued in this age And than sodenly without any funerall honor in the night tyme by commoun carriers of dead bodies vpon a vile béere she causit hym to be buryed hard by Dauid Rizo Quhen these doynges were knawin abrode and that the indignatioun of the pepill had ouercome the threatnynges of penalties and the frāknesse of sorrow surmounted feare by litill and litill she beganne to set hir face and with counterfaiting of mournyng she labored to appease the hartes of the grudgyng pepill For quhair the auncient maner hath ben for quenis efter the death of thair husbandes by the space of fortye dayes not onely to forbeare the companie of men but alswa from lukyng on the open light she attemptit a disguisit maner of mournyng But the myrth of heart far passing the fayned sorrow she shut the dores in dede but she set open the windowes and within fower dayes she threw away hir wayling wéede and gane to behald baith sunne and open skye agayne But this ane thyng fell very ouerthwartly For quhen Henry Killegrée was come from the quene of Ingland to comfort her as the maner is this gentleman strangeris hap was to marre the play and vnuisor all the disguising For quhen he was by the quenis commaundement come to the Court though he beyng an auld courtier and a gud discrete gentleman did nathyng hastily yet he came in sa vnseasonably ere the stage wer prepared and furnished that he found the windowes open the candeles nat yet lighted and all the prouision for the play out of order Quhen of the forty dayes that are apoyntit for the mournyng scarce twelue wer yet fully past and the counterfaityng wald nat frame half handsomely to disclose hir true affections so soone she was somewhat ashamit at length takyng hart of grace vnto hir and neglectyng sic trifles she commeth to her own byace and openly sheweth hir owne naturall conditions She posteth to Setons house with a very few and those not all of the saddest company There Bothwel though it semed that for the great fauor he than had in court and for the nobilitie of hys byrth other respectes of honor he should haue ben next efter the quene most honorably receiued yet was ludged in a chamber hard by the kitchin Howbeit the same was a place not altogether vnfit to asswage thair sorrowes for it was directly vnder the quenis chamber and if any sodein qualme of grefe should haue hapned to come ouer hir hart there was a paire of stayres though somewhat narrow yet wyde enough for Bothwell to get vp to comfort hir In the meane tyme efter the rumor hereof was spred into France Monsieur de Croc quho had often befoir ben Embassadour in Scotland came in sodenly vpon tham God wote full vnseasonably By hys aduise she returned to Edenburgh out of that denne quhilk euen as far as France was infamous But in Setons house were sa many commodious opportunities for hir purpose that how soeuer hir gud name wer therby appeyred nedes she must ga thether agayne There were conselles holden of the great affaires of the realme The end of the consultatioun was that Bothwell shold be arrainit of the murder and acquitit by iudges therto chosen for the nones and constrainit It was concludit that the meaner sorte of the iudges might with fauor and fayre promises be ledde and the rest of the greater and grauer sort whom for fashions sake thay were driuen to call to the mater might be drawen with feare to acquite hym For byside libelles therof commonly throwen abrode the kyngis father the Erle of Lennor did openly accuse hym for principall author of the murder The assemblie of the states in parlament was at hand quhilk was to be halden the xiij of Aprill befoir quhilk day thay wald nedes haue the arrainement dispatchit That great hast was the cause quhy in that preceding and triall nathyng hes ben done according to the forme of law nathing in order nathing after the auncient vsage There ought to haue bene publike summons of the accusers the next of the kinne the wife the father and the sonne eyther to be present thamselfis or to send thair proctors The law also gaue tham tyme of forty dayes But hair the father was commaundit to cum within xiij dayes and that wythout any assembly of his frendis wyth hys awne housholde retinue anely quhilk by reason of his great pouertie was now brought to a few quhile in the meane tyme Bothwell with great bandes of men dayly mustered about the towne And bycause he verely beleuit that in sa assurit perill na man would take vpon hym to be hys accuser he grew to sic ane negligence and sic contempt of law and iudiciall procedyng Enditement that the dictay was framit of ane murder supposit to be done the ix day of February quhen in dede the Kyng was slayne the x. day In choosing and