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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

That a woman raging without measure and modestie and abusing to all hyr subiectis distructioun the force of hyr power that sche had receyued for theyr safety we haif kept vnder gouernance of her kinsmen and well willing frendes and quhom by right we might for hyr haynous deides haif executit hir we haif touchit with na vther punischment but onely restraynit hyr from doing mair mischief For we depriuit hyr nat of libertie but of vnbridelit licentiousnes of euil duing Quherin we mair feare among all gude men the blaime of too mikle leuitie than among euill men the sclander of crueltie These were the causis that mouit the Quene to thys ▪ mater Bothwell also had hys reasons quhilk nat a litle troublit hys mynde For quhen that same infamous acquitall rather encreasit than abatit the suspicioun and the matter coulde nat be alway kept close he fleeth to his last refuge to obteyne of the quene a pardon of all hys offences But quhen by the lawe of the land in sic charters of pardon the greatest offence must be expressely mentionit and the rest it sufficit to include in general wordes and expressely to confesse the murder of the kyng semit to stand neyther wyth hys honor nor wyth his safetie he was driuen of necessitie eyther to inuent or commit some vther crime eyther maire greuous or at y e least as haynous vnder quhilk the sclaughter of y e kyng might lurke in shadow of generall wordes vnexpressit They could deuise none vther but the same counterfait rauishment of the Quene quhairby baith the Quene prouidit for enioying hir pleasure and Bothwell for hys safetie MEmorandum that in the castel of Edenburgh there was left by the Erle Bothwell befoir his fleing away and was sent for by one George Daglish his seruant quho was taken by the Erle Moreton one small gilt cofer nat fully ane foote lang beyng garnishit in sondry places with the Romaine letter F vnder ane kyngis crowne quhairin were certaine letters and writynges well knawin and by othes to be affirmit to haue béen written with the quene of Scottes awne hand to the Erle Bothwell Beside those writynges there was alswa extant a writyng written in Romane hand in French to be auowit to be writtē by the sayd quene of Scottes hir self beyng a promise of mariage to the sayd Bothwell quhilk writyng beyng without date and though some wordes therein seme to the contrary yet is vpon credible groūdes supposed to haue been made and written by hir befoir the death of hir husband the tenor quhair of thus begynneth Nous Marie par la grace de Dieu c. We Marie by the grace of God c. There is also ane vther writyng in Scottish auowit to be quholly written by the Erle of Huntley datit the v. of Aprill 1567. conteyning ane forme of contract for mariage betwixt the sayd quene and Erle Bothwell subscribit Marie quhilk is to be auowit to be the proper hād of the sayd quene and vnderneth it Iames Erle Bothwel quhilk alswa is to be auowit to be the proper hand of the said Erle Bothwell at quhilk tyme he was commonly defamit of the kyngis slaughter and nat cleansit or acquitit therof befoir the xij of Aprill followyng The tenor of quhilk contract here ensueth AT Seyton the v. day of Aprill the yere of God 1567. The richt excellent richt high mighty Princesse Mary by the grace of God Quene of Scottis cōsidering the place estait quharin almighty God hes constitute hir highnes And how by the decesse of the king hir husband hir Maiestie is now destitute of ane husbād liuyng solitary in the staire of widohede In the quhilk kinde of life hyr maiestie maist willingly wald continue gif the weill of hir realme and subiectis wald permit it But on the vther pairt considering the incōueniencis may follow and the necessitie quhilk the realme hes that hir Maiestie be couplit with ane husband hir highnes hes inclynit to marry And seyng quhat incommoditie may cum to this realme incace hir Maiestie should ioyne in mariage with any forein prince of a strange natioun hir highnes hes thoght rather better to yelde vnto ane of hir awin subiectis Amangis quhome hir Maiestie findis nane maire able nor indued wyth better qualities than the right noble hir deare cousing Iames Earle Bothwell c. Of quhais thankfull and trew seruice hir highnes in all tymes bypast hes had large pruif and infallible experience And seing not onely the same gude mynde constātly perseuering in him but with that ane inward affectioun harty luif towardes hir Maiestie hir highnes amangis the rest hes maid hir choyse of hym And thairfore in the presence of the eternall God faithfully and in the word of ane Prince by these presentis takes the sayd Iames Erle Bothwell as hir lauchfull husband And promittes and oblissis hir highnes that how sone the processe of diuorce intentit betuix the sayd Erle Bothwell and Dame Iane Gordon now hys pretensit spouse beis endit by the order of the lawis hir Maiestie shal God willing thairefter schortly marry and take the sayd Erle to hir husband and compleit the band of matrimony wyth hym in face of haly kirk And shall neuer marry none vther husband but he onely during his life time Item to the Duke of Norfolke c. And as hir Maiestie of hir gracious humanitie and proper motiue without deseruing of the sayd Erle hes thus inclynit hir fauor and affectioun towardes hym he humbly reuerently acknawledging y e same according to his bounde dewtie and being as free and able to make promise of mariage in respect of the sayd processe of diuorce intentit for diuerse reasonable causes and that hys sayd pretensit spouse hes thairunto consentit he presently takes hir Maiestie as his lauchfull spouse in the presence of God And promittis and oblissis hym as he will answere to God and vpon his fidelitie and honor that in all diligence possible he shall prosecute setforwart the sayd processe of diuorce alredy begon and intentit betuix hym and the sayd Dame Iane Gordon hys pretensit spouse vnto the finall end of ane decreit and declarator thairin And incontinent thairefter at hir Maiesties gude wyll and pleasure and quhen hir highnes thinkes conuenient shall compleit and solemnizat in face of haly kirk the sayde band of matrimony with hir Maiestie and luif honor and serue hir highnes according to the place and honor that it hes pleasit hir Maiestie to accept hym vnto And neuer to haue any vther for hys wife during hir Maiesties life time In fayth and witnessing quhairof hir hyghnes the sayd Erle hes subscribit this present faithfull promise with thair handes as followis day yeare place foirsaidis befoir these witnes George Erle of Huntlie and Maister Thomas Hepburne Parsoun of Auldhāstock c. Sic

rumors quhilk esteme the sclanders of maist lewd slight persons for sad testimonies and geue credite to these men quho boasting at home that thay are able to do what that list yit neither dare commit thayr cause to the sentence of the Iudges nor were abill to defend tham selfis in battaill And as by giltie conscience of offensis thay fearit iugement so by raige growen of thayr giltinesse thay runne hedlang to battail and from battayll runne cowartly away and now againe quhen standing vpon the aduantage that they haif baith in number and wealth thay scorne the wisedome of thair aduersareis and despise thair power in comparison of thair awin yit distrusting to preuayle by trew manhoode they fall to robbery and turne thayr vngracious minde tormentit with inwart terrouris of giltie cōscience to sclandering cauillyng lesing quhom yet for the gude wil that I beir to my conterymē I waid aduise to cease from thys folly or fury or disease of euill speiking lest in time to come quhen truth shall shine out thay shut vp and stop with hatrit of tham those persons eares to thayr petitiounis quhom now they new fill lode with false rumouris for thare wyll nat alway be place for forgeuenes but as darcknes at the sunne shining so lyes at the light of treuth must vanische away As for the commodious meanes for committing that vile fact and the hoipe of hiding it I neid nat to pursue the declaring of tham in many wordis sith baith the easinesse to do it the opportuteis of placis and all aduauncementis of occasiouns and seasons were in their owne power And to hide the fact quhat neidit thay quhē thay fearit na punishment gif it were publishit For quhat punischment cauld they feir in sa strang a conspiracie quhen baith the force of lawes quhairof tham selfis wer gouernours was vtterly extinguishit and the mindis of maist pairt of men weir eyther snarit with partenerschip of the mischieuous fact or caryit wyth hoip or forestallit wyth rewardis or discouragit and bridelit wyth feare of sa greit a power on the vther pairt But how sa euer thys be yit schall it be gude to see throughly baith the order of the duing the vnaduisidnes inconstancie and end of thayr deuisis For tharwithall schall ye perceiue that thare wanted nat desire to hyde the fact but that the furor of a distracted minde ouerthrew all the order of thair coūsels quhile some time as desyrous to beguyle publike fame thay endeuourit to keip close thayr intendit mischiefe yit thay dealt tharein sa opinly as gif carelesse of thair estimatioun thay seemit to make small accompte howe men iudged of thayr duyngis For the poysoun at his preparyng to go to Glasco was geuen hym secretly and thay thoght thay had sufficiently well prouidit that he should in hys absence from tham be consumit with pynyng sicknesse But the rest of thair dealinges towart hym wer sa cruelly handlit that though his disease shold haue happenit to be naturall yet it wald haue ben suspectit for poysonyng For he hir husband the father of hir onely and first borne childe the father I say of that sonne quhoes Christenyng was solemnisit with sa great pompe and glorie beyng escapit away in maner nakit as it wer out of his house flamyng in fier tormentit by the waye with greuous peine quhē he lay at Glascow of a dangerous sicknesse likely to dye quhat did hys excellent gude wife the quhile Quhat dyd sche At the first newes of it dyd she hast to him in post Doth sche with her presence with hir freindly familiar spech or with hir louyng countenance comfort hym in sicknesse quhen she can nat stay him in life commeth she to receiue his last breath closeth she hys eyes at his deyng doth she the vther kinde duties of honest matrones No. But she that had now let him escape to goe and dye and hopit that he cauld not linger out hys vnhappy life but a few dayes langer getteth hir a cleane contrary way into an vther contrey in progresse and with hir faire Adonis she visiteth noble mens houses and stayneth the houses that harborit them with the spottes of thair vnchastities and iust about the tyme of hir husbandes death as she gessit by the strength and workyng of the poysoun she returneth to Stereline Quhen the mater wrought not sa fast as she lukit for the strength of his youth had wrastlit with the sorenesse of the peine least she shold seme to haue altogether forsaken hir dutie sche daily prepareth to go to Glasco but neuer goeth At the last disapointit of the hope that sche had conceiuit in hir hart she taketh hir to vther deuises She commeth to Edenburgh and there calleth to counsell hir aduoutrer and a few vther priuie of those secrets There thay decree that in any wise the kyng must be slayne Yet wer thay nat fully aduisit with quhat kinde of death he should be murderit Quhilk may easily be gatherit by hir letter quhairin she partly compareth hir selfe with Medea a bludy woman and a poysoning witch Alswa by an vther of hir letters quharin she asketh aduise about the poysonyng him The kyng quho had alredy tastit of hir louely cuppe doutyng whether he wer better any mair to beleue hir flattering speches or to feare the shrewdnesse of hir nature though sometime he despeirit not of hir reconciliation yet euer was somewhat mair feareful and suspicious But quhen he saw that nouther his life nor his death wer in his power he was constrainit in silence to purse vp his passit iniuries to dissemble hys present feare and to fayne him selfe some hope for tyme to come Sa was he led out nat as a husband but carried out as a corse or rather drawen as it wer to the shambles The Quene gloriously shewyng hir selfe in pompous maner goeth befoir in triumph ouer the yong gentleman vexit with all kynde of iniuries tormentit with poyson entrappit with treasons and drawen to execution There followe after the triumphant carre the auncient enemies to his fathers house brought thether for the nones that thay alswa might fede thair eyes with that woefull spectacle and quhoes death at hād thay lukit for thay might in the meane tyme take pleasure of the sorow of his hart And that na ceremonie of solemne sacrifices might be wāting Ihon Hamilton Archbishop of of S. Androwes was present as thair priest a man befoir defiled with all kind of wickitnesse pāpered with the spoyles and murders of hys contreymen ane auld conquerour of many murderyng victories The pepill all alang the way lukyng pitiously shewit a foreboding of na gude lucke to come The Quenes companiōs could nouther well enough faine thair sadnesse nor hide thair gladnesse quhen the haynous outrage of the vile fact intēdit held thair vnmesurable ioy in some suspense vpon expectatiō of the successe Thus led they him to

the 16. of February in this maner Bycause proclamatioun is made that quhosoeuer will reueale the murther of the kyng shall haue two thousand pound I quho haue made inquisitioun by them that were the doers therof affirme that the committers of it were the Erle Bothwell If this be not true spere at Gilbert Bawfoord M. Iames Balfoure the Persoun of Flisk M. Dauy Chambers Blacke M. Iohn Spence quho quhas principall deuiser of the murther and the quene assentyng thairto through the persuasioun of the Erle Bothwell and the witchcraft of the Lady Bucklowgh Upon this new proclamation was made the same day desiryng the setter vp of the sayd Bill to come and auowe and subscribe the same and he should haue the summe promisit in the first proclamatioun and further accordyng to his abilitie and sight of the quene and hir counsell The aunswere thereunto was set vp in the place aforesayd the morrow after being the xix of the same month FOrasmekle as proclamatioun hath bene made since the settyng vp of my first letter desiryng me to subscribe and auow the same For aunswer I desire the mony to be consignit into an éeuenly mans hand and I shall compéere on Sonday nexte with iiij some with me and subscribe my first letter and abide therat And further I desire that Senior Frauncis Bastian and Ioseph the quenes goldsmith be stayit and I shall declaire quhat euery man did in particuler with their complices To quhilk bill none aunswer was made The xiiij day of Aprill the Erle Bothwell commyng to the Sessions at Edenburgh with antesigne displaide the stréetes full of armed men of hys factioun was arreynit for the murther of the kyng and acquit of the same by a pariurde iury quhairupon he set vp a challenge to fight hand to hand with any man beyng no person diffamed that wald auow the matter Hereunto aunswere was made by an vther Bill set vy in the same place anone after That for asmickle as the sayd Erle Bothwell had set vp a writyng subscribed with his awne hand quhairby he dyd chalenge any man nat diffamed that would or durst say he was giltie of the kyings death and therwithal did giue the ly in his throte to him that wald auouch the quarell a gentleman a man of gude fame did by those presentes accept the offer and offers and wald proue by the law of armes that he was the chefe author of that foule and horrible murther albeit an inquest for feare of death had slyghtly quyte hym And bycause the kyng of Fraunce and the quene of England had by thair Ambassadours desired that tryall and punishement might be had for the same he maist hartily thairfoir craued of thair Maiesties that thay wald desire of the quene hys souereine that by hir consent thay might appoynt the day and place within their dominions for the triall therof accordyng to the law of armes in thair presences or in thair deputies Quhilk day place he promised by the faith of a gentlemā to appeare at and to do his deuoyre prouided alwayes that thair Maiesties by open proclamatioun shall giue assurance too hym and to hys companie too passe and repasse through thair countryes without hurt or impediment Quhat iust cause he had too desire the kyng of Fraunce and the quene of England too be iudges in the case he remitted too the iugement of the readers and the hearers warnyng by those presentes the rest of the murtherers to prepare them selues for thay should haue the lyke offer made vnto them and thair names giuen in wrytyng that thay might be knawin too all men ¶ The confessioun of Iohn Habroun Young Talla Dagleish and Pourie vpon quhom was Iustice execute the 3. of Ianuarie the yeare of God 1567 IOhn of Bowton confessit that nyne was at the deid doing my L. Bothwell the Lord of Ormistoun Hob Ormistoun himself Talla Dagleish Uilson Pourie and Frentch Paris and that he saw na moe nor knew of na vther companies Item he knowis nat vther but that that he was blowin in the ayre for he was handillit with na mens handes as he saw and if he was it was with vthers and not with tham Item as touching Sir Iames Balfour he saw not his subscriptioun but I warrand you he was the principall tounsallar and deuiser Item he sayd I confesse it is the veray prouidence of God that hes brought me to his iudgement for I am led to it as an horse to the stall for I had schippis prouidit to flie but coulde not escape Item he sayd let no man do euill for counsell of great men or thair maysters thinking thay shall saue tham for surely I thought that night that the deid was done that although knowledge should bene gotten na man durst haue sayde it was euill done seing the hand writtis and acknowledging the Quenis minde thairto Item speaking of the Quene in the Tolbuith he sayd God make all weill but the langer deirt is hydden it is the stronger Quho liues our daithes will thought na newis Item hinmest he confessit he was ane of the principall doers of the daith and thairfoir is iustly worthy of daith but he was assurit of the mercy of God quho callit him to repentance ITem Talla confessit vt supra agreing in all pointes as concerning the parsons number and blowing in the ayre Item he affirmit that in Setoun my Lord Bothwell callit on him and sayd quhat thought you quhen thou saw him blowen in the ayre Quho aunswerit alas my Lord quhy speake ye that for quhē euer I heare sic a thing the words wound me to death as thay ought to do you Item that same tyme he saw Syr Iames Balfour put in his owne name and his brothers vnto my Lord Bothwelles remissioun Item he knew of the deid doing three or foure dayes or it was done or therby Item he sayd after that I came to the court I left the reading of Gods worde and imbrasit vanitie and thairfoir hes God iustly brought this on me Quhairfoir let all men flee euill cumpany and to trust not in mē for redy are we to imbrace euil as redy as hardes to receaue fyre And further in the Tolbuith he requirit Iohn Brande minister of the congregation to passe to my Lord Lind say say my Lord hartily I forgeue your L. and al 's my Lord Regent and all vthers but specially tham that betrayit me to you for I know if ye could haue sauit me ye would desiring you as ye will aunswere before God in the latter day to do your diligence to bring the rest qhuo was the beginners of this worke to iustice as ye haue done to me for ye know it was not begunne in my head but yit prayses God that his iustice hes begunne at me by the quhilk he hes callit me to repentaunce ITem Daglishe sayd as God shall be my iudge I knew nothing of the kinges daith befoir it was done for my Lord Bothwell gangand to his bedde after the taking of of his hose quhilke was stockit with veluet Frenth Paris cum and roundit with him thairefter he taryed on me for vther hose and claithis his riding cloke and sworde quhilke I gaue him herefter cum vp the gait to the Lord of Ormistouns lodging taryit for him and therefter that he passit to ane wynd beside the blacke Fryers and cum to the slope of the dike quhaire he gart me stand still and as God shal be my iudge I knew nathing quhill I heard the blast of powder and after this he cum hame lay downe in his beid quhill M. George Hakit cum and knockit at the doore and if I dye for this the quhilke God iudge me gif I knew maire quhat shal be done to tham quho was the deuisers counsallars subscriuers and fortifiers of it Now iudge Englischmen if it be gud to change Quenis O vnityng confounding Quhen rude Scotlād hes vomited vp ane poisoun must fine England lick it vp for a restoratiue O vile indignitie Quhile your Quenis enemy liueth hir dangir cōtinueth Desperate necessitie wyll dare the vttermost O cruell mercie O ambitioun fed with prosperitie strēgthned with indulgence irritated with aduersitie not to be neglected trusted nor pardouned