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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05351	The copie of a letter writen out of Scotland by an English gentlema[n] of credit and worship seruing ther, vnto a frind and kinsman of his, that desired to be informed of the truth and circumstances of the slaunderous and infamous reportes made of the Queene of Scotland, at that time restreined in manner as prisoner in England, vpon pretense to be culpable of the same.	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1572 (1572)	STC 15503; ESTC S103368	31,468	132

him in all she could till she had recouered him and euen so likewise at Edenborough she kept cūpany with him and tenderly cherished him euen to the very last houre that euer she sawe him so that longe before his death there was not only a perfect reconciliation betwene thē but suche hartie and faithfull loue as no practice that Murrey and his fellowes could make was hable eftsones to worke any breache betwene them Which considered and beeing notoriously knowen to be true a man may with Terence truely say to the suggester of that presumption Non sat commodè Diuisa sunt temporibus tibi ▪ Daue haec To the second presumptiō by the flaūderers alleaged in that he was not so solemnely buried as was conuenient it is answered that his body was honourably enbalmed seared and interred bysides king Iames the v. her Graces father and was accompanied to that place with Iustice Clarke the Lorde of Traquar and many other Gentlemen of reputation The ceremonies in dede were against her Graces wil the fewer bycause the most part of her Councell were Protestants who could abide no ceremonies some of them had before interred their owne Noble parents without accustomed solemnities and ceremonies But it had bene no harde matter for her Highnes neyther wanted she wisedome and policie if she had bene guiltie of his death to haue cloked the same with solemne funeralles which hath ben is a thing very vsual cōmon in such cases The two simple presumptious of the Aduersaries being thus truely answered I will now lay foorth certaine others on the other side of farre more weight to shewe that it was neither likely nor almost possible that her Highnes could be consenting to that foule murder of her dere husband First bycause that Sexe generally abhorreth by nature suche horrible murder it could not possibly be that of many other women her Highnes who had alwaies before appeared to be of a most mude courteous honourable nature seeking by wonderfull clemencie mercie to winne the harts of her enemies of whom she had before pardoned some more thē once could by any likelyhod fal vpō the sodaine frō the heigth of so excellēt vertue as she was renoumed for through Christendom to the depe pit of such horrible synne and crueltie as to murder her owne husband a noble and goodly yong Prince whom shee so tenderly loued For that as good men assisted with Gods grace doo dayly rise as it were by degrees from vertue to vertue so no man becommeth vpon the sodaine of excellent vertuous extreme vitious but descendeth rather by diuers stepps from worse to worse before he come to the hiddeous bottomme of suche vnnaturall crueltie as vnneth a Tygre or any other sauage beast would haue vsed towarde her make Secondly if her Highnes had bene desirous to haue bene rid of him wherof there is no probabilitie she had good lawfull meane to haue compassed that by ordinarie course of law for the murder of her Secretary in whose body his dagger was founde sticking For though he were her Graces husband yet was he in an other respect her subiect and vnder her lawes Thirdly she wold not cōsent so much as to be diuorced from him whervnto diuers of her Nobilitie earnestly aduised persuaded her to whome she modestly and louingly answered that she would in no wise so doo For though he were yet yong and somewhat loose for want of experience and staied wisedome yet shee nothing doubted but he would in time proue a noble wise and vertuous Gentleman and that she should with her dutiful and louing behauiour toward him sone winne reduce him from those smal ouersights which his tender mynde corrupted with euil counsel had fallen into whereof she sawe in him alreadie a modest mislyking and thereby great cause to hope as she did But that euery way how so euer he should at any time forget him selfe yet shee would neuer wittingly cōmit thing whereby shee should on her part seeme in any respect vnmindefull of her dutie toward him whome shee did and would hartely loue not doubting of the like in time at his hande toward her Fourthly it is to be considered and not impertinent to this weightie case to obserue the Rule of Cassius in examinyng and consideryng Cui bono whiche in suche coniecturall causes may geue great light of the truth by noting whether parte the accuser or els the accused were like to take moste benefit by the fact It is certain that her Highnes could gaine nothing therby but the heauy displeasure of God and perpetual infamie to her personne without the hasarding whereof she had good and orderly meane by due course of lawe to haue bene ridde of him had she bene so disposed But by the dispatche of him in that sorte the Earle Murrey gayned first to be reuenged of him for reuolting from him and disclosing to the Queene his moste traiterous conspiracies and vnkind practises ageynste her Highnes to whome the sayd Earle was for her great liberalitie bountifulnes towarde him so singulerly bound He geyned also that notable occasiō which he had long sought to drawe the Queene into slaunder and mislike with her best frinds which was one principall step toward the ende wherevnto his ambitious minde tended The answer to the two principal points wherevpon the slaunderers doe moste stifly relye as the chiefe colours of any probabilitie in their most slaunderous accusation of the Queenes Highnes together with certaine moste notorious and clere prouses of her Graces innocencie in procuring allowing or so muche as foreknowing any whit of that horrible fact CAPVT 2. BYsydes the coniectural presumptions before remēbred two especial thinges are there say they so notorious to conuince her of procuring the murder that she nor any her frinds can euer as they thinke be hable to auoyde them The first is a letter of her owne hand writtē to the Earle Bothwell which letter they say was founde emong other letters in a box taken vpon Dugglish the Earle Bothwels man who was sent with the said box to the Earle his Master from Sir Iames Balfore Capte●ne of Edenborough Castle The second wherwith they assure themselues they haue hit euē the naile on the very head is her mariage with the Earle Bothwel who is wel knowen as they now say to haue bene one of the murderers of the Lord Darley her former husband This is say they in the iudgemēt of al the world such a testimonie ageynst her as there is nothing to be said vnto it These in dede carie a great shew and geue a very hollow sound but so doth the emptie runne if it be knocked on yea it geueth a greater sound then that which is ful of good wine So doth the Cannon charged onely with pouder make as greate a noyse as that which shooteth forth a stone and battereth the sturdy bulwarke But first for answer of your letter whiche you make suche price of