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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

curious Now to the answere of the second Obiection touching the pretensed mariage of the Earle Bothwel it might be wondered with what face they themselues that were the earnest solicitours and procurers of the Queene thervnto could have y boldenes now to charge her Highnes therewith if so many their other doinges had not shewed them to be past al shame grace But for the cleare opening of that drift it is to be knowen deepely considered that the Earle Murrey hauing as it may seeme sucked a traiterons minde euen with the milke of his lewde mother prefixing to him selfe that nothing could better serue to the aduancement of his traiterous designements then to bring the Queene into slaunder and obloquie of the world therby to alienate from her the minds of her frindes and subiectes found now that the next parte he had to plaie was to worke if he could by any policie suche a fetche as the Queene might be brought ignorātly to match herselfe in mariage with one of the murtherers He therefore layed al his irons in the fyre least no stone vnremoued or way vnattempted to persuade her bothe by earnest letters which her Highnes hath yet to shewe signed with his owne hand and with the handes of diuers Noble men and others his Confederats as also with diligent and daily solicitations otherwise namely by one of their conspirac●● then placed about her for that purpose to take to husband the said Earle Bothwel whom to remoue al struple they the Conspirators them selues had acquitted by their verdict of the murder whereof he was somewhat suspected hauing also prepared an open way to that part of the Tragedie by procuring a diuorce alitle before at the sute of the olde Coūtesse of Duntley betwene the said Earle Bothwel and his wife ▪ her daughter for that they were so nere of kinne as with conscience forsoth thei might not continue together Pretending farther vnto the Queene that bysides the diuorce before lawfully passed as they said God had also taken the said Ladie Bothwel to his mercie so as to apparence there remained no impedimente but that her Highnes might marie him And so they earnestly aduised and praied her Grace to doe as the onely manne that for his Nobilitie wisedome valiantnesse and many other vertues they all iudged the fittest husbande in the Realme for her Highnesse most likely by his wisedome to staie the troubles that were like to growe by the diuers factions that were emōg the noble men who would souer be appeased and commit their differents to be compoūded by him then by any stranger whose rule they should perhappes not be very apt so willingly to brooke The Queene seing this their earnest sute with their moste faithful promises as they seemed of willing seruice most assured loialtie to the vttermost of their power in case shee would take the said Erle Bothwel to her husband myngled also with some threats if shee should refuse so to do withal calling to her mind the sodeine and diuers vprores and seditions allready made ageynst her the cruel murder of her Secretarie in her owne presence the late strange and most lamentable murder of her husband the diseumforte distresse and desolate estate wherein she presently stode the Earles actiuitie in martial affaiers the good faithful seruice done by him to her mother and her self fearing also some new sturre imminēt troble if she should denie and refuse this so earnest sute made vnto her by her Nobilitie though she wer always before that time very wise circumspect prudent in al other her doinges yet being a womā circumuented by so many craftie heads tossed with diuers cogitations neuer being opēly or priuately so muche as once admonished that he was in trouth guiltie of the murder which seing and hearing as shee sawe and heard she found no manner cause to suspect and bring in the myddes of these careful thoughts was met one day as she was ryding vpon the way toward Kircliften by the said Earle armed accompanied with men of warre by him taken from her companie perforce caried to Dunbarre Castle where what with faire meanes and what with setting before her eyes many imminēt dāgers if she refused being destitute of al coūsell or aduise of all presence accesse of any of her faithful seruāts or frinds at the last she assented at y sute made by himself so many other of the Nobilitie to that pretensed mariage The consummation whereof the Confederates had not so sone cōpassed but forthwith they proceeded to the next Act of their Tragedie geuing out bruits into al Countries that she had caused her husbād to be murthered maried the murderer which for that it stood not forsoth with their honour to indure they presently toke armes ef●sones rebelled ageinst their said Soueraigne bl●nding be witching the world for the time with the probabilitie of their assertiō much increased by that her pretensed mariage wherof themselues were only that procurers as before they had bene of the murthering of her Secretarie and her husband Thus do you see how this good Lady hath ben handled how easie a matter it is for a nūber of subtill crafty heads to ouertake deceiue a good milde wel meaning Lady destitute of coūsel For her faithful coūsellers seeing the number puissance of the cōtrary faction so great by Knoxes pulpit alarmes daily so increase taking a fair warning by the secretaries end durst not once quitche or geue vnto her Grace such sound aduise as their duties required But hereof inough Let the Cōspirators make now what thei can of the pretensed mariage the more they talke therof the more they do manifest to the world their owne most shamelesse impudencie in turning now to an argument of suspicion ageynst the Queene that which them selues so busily contriued and vnnaturally executed Whereof their owne letters handes and seales remaine witnesses voide of all suspicion Thus hauing answered these two their chief principal Obiectiōs to wit of the letter of the pretensed mariage I wi lay forth before you certeine cleare proufes and notorious testimonies of her innocencie of that case of the murder First vnderstand you that a seruāt of the Earle Bothwel being executed for the murder confessed in the hearing of fiue thousand people and mo that Murrey and his Complites were the principal counsailers and assisters with his master in that murder and that so his master had tolde him and confessed also to haue sene the Indentures wherein the Conspirators had bound them selues eche to other to make away the Lorde Darley vpon the first opportunitie that might be offered Also Iohn Hay of Tallowe Pourie Dugglish and Paris being al put to death for that they were the executioners of that murder did al and euery of them seuerally at their death protest vpon their consciences as they hoped to be saued at the latter daie that