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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

every day before Dinner and after Dinner ye would come to my Chamber and pass time with me and thus long time ye have not done so and when I come to your Majesty's Chamber ye bear me little company except Davie had been the third Marrow and after Supper your Majesty hath a use to set at the Cards with the said Davie till one or two of the Clock after midnight and this is the entertainment that I have had of you this long time Her Majesty's answer was It was not Gentlewomens duty to come to their Husbands Chamber but rather the Husband to come to the Wive's Chamber if he had any thing to do with her The King answered How came ye to my Chamber at the beginning and ever till within these few Months● that Davie fell in familiarity with you or am I failed in any sort of my Body or what disdain have you at me or what Offence have I made you that you should not use me at all time alike seeing that I am willing to do all things that becometh a good Husband to do to his Wife For since you have chose me to be your Husband suppose I be of the baser degree yet I am your Head and ye promised Obedience at the day of our Marriage and that I should be equal with you and participant in all things I suppose you have used me otherwise by the perswasions of Davie Her Majesty answered and said that all the shame that was done to her that my Lord ye have the weight thereof for the which I shall never be your Wife nor lie with you nor shall never like well till I gar you have as sore a Heart as I have presently Then the Lord Ruthen made answer and besought her Majesty to be of good comfort and to treat her self and the King her Husband and to use the Counsel of the Nobility and he was assured her Government should be as well guided as ever it was in any King's days The said Lord being so feebled with his Sickness and wearied with his Travel that he desired her Majesty's pardon to sit down upon a Coffer and called for a drink for God's sake so a French man brought him a Cup of Wine and after that he had drunken the Queen's Majesty began to rail against the said Lord Is this your Sickness Lord Ruthen The said Lord answered God forbid that your Majesty had such a Sickness for I had rather give all the moveable Goods that I have Then said her Majesty if she died or her Barn or Common-weal perished she should leave the revenge thereof to her Friends to revenge the same upon the said Lord Ruthen and his Posterity for she had the King of Spain her great Friend the Emperor likewise and the King of France her good Brother the Cardinal of Lorrain and her Unkels in France besides the Pope's Holiness with many other Princes in Italy The said Lord answered that these noble Princes were over-great Personages to meddle with such a poor man as he was being her Majesty 's own Subject and where her Majesty said that if either she her Barn or the Commonweal perished the said Lord Ruthen should have the weight thereof the said Lord answered that if any of the three perished her Majesty's self and her particular Counsel should have the weight thereof and should be accused as well before God as the World for there was no man there within that Palace but they that would honour and serve her Majesty as becometh true Subjects and would suffer no manner harm to be done to her Majesty's Body than to their own Hearts and if any thing be done this night that your Majesty mislikes charge the King your Husband and none of us your Subjects which the King confessed was of verity In the same instant one came knocking fast at the Queen's Chamber-door declaring that the Earls Huntly Athol Bothwel Cathness and Sutherland with the Lords Fleming Levingstone Secretary Tillibarn the Comptroller and Laird of Grant with their own Servants and Officers of the Palace were fighting in the Close against the Earl of Morton and his Company being on the King's Party The King hearing the same would have gone down and the Lord Ruthen staid him and desired him to intreat the Queen's Majesty and he would go down and take order amongst them So the said Lord passed to the Close born under the Arm and before his coming the Officers were dwong into their Houses and the Lords were holden in at the Gallery Door by the Earl of Morton and others being with him and were constrained to pass up to the Gallery and to their Chambers So the said Lord Ruthen passed up to the Earl Bothwell's Chamber where he found the Earls of Huntley Sutherland Cathness the Laird of Grant and divers others to whom he shewed that the whole Proceeding that was done that night was done and invented by the King's Majesty 's own devise like as his Hand written was to shew thereupon and how he had sent for the Lords that were banished in England and Argyle who would be there before day And because there was some Enmity unreconciled betwixt the Earls of Huntly and Bothwell and the Earls of Argyle and Murray and their Colleagues the said Lords promised in their names that it should be mended at the sight of two or three of the Nobility they doing such like to them whereupon the said Earls of Huntley and Bothwell gave the Lord Ruthen their hands and received his for th' other part and after they had drunken the said Lord Ruthen took his leave of them and passed to the Earl of Athol's Chamber accompanied with the Earls of Cathness Sutherland and the Laird of Grant and found with the said Earl the Comptroller Secretary Mr. Iames Balfour and divers others and because of the Familiarity and Kindness betwixt the Earl of Athol and the Lord Ruthen the said Earl began to be angry with the said Lord for that he would not shew him what Enterprise soever that he had to do whose answer was that it was the King's Action and the King's Devise and that none of them had further medling therewith than the King had commanded like as his Hand written did testify Yet the said Earl enquired further upon the said Lord Ruthen why he would not let him wit thereof the said Lord answered it was the King's Secret and feared if he had given knowledg thereof he would have revealed it to the Queen's Majesty which might have been a hindrance of the purpose and caused the King have holden me an unhonest man for my part The said Earl perceiving that all that was done was the Kings own deed desired the said Lord Ruthen to pass to the King and get him leave to pass to his Country and so many as were presently in the Chamber with him In this mean time the Earls of Bothwell and Huntly taking a fear of the other Lords returning out of England

and the other therefore we bind and oblige Us our Heirs and Successors to the said Earls Lords Barons Gentlemen Freeholders Merchants and Craftsmen their Heirs and Successors that we shall accept the same Feud upon Us and fortify and maintain them at the uttermost of our Power and shall be Friend to their Friends and Enemy to their Enemies and shall neither suffer them nor theirs to be molested nor troubled in their Bodies Lands Goods nor Possessions so far as lieth in us And if any person would take any of the said Earls Lords Barons Gentlemen Freeholders Merchants or Craftsmen for enterprizing and assisting with us for the atchieving of our purpose because it may chance to be done in presence of the Queen's Majesty or within her Palace of Holyrood-house we by the Word of a Prince shall accept and take the same on us now as then and then as now and shall warrant and keep harmless the foresaid Earls Lords Barons Freeholders Gentlemen Merchants and Craftsmen at our utter power In witness whereof we have subscribed this with our own hand at Edinburg the 1st of March 1565. Upon Saturday the 9th day of March as is conform to the King's Ordenance and Device the said Earl Morton Lords Ruthen and Lindsey having their Men and Friends in readiness abiding for the King's Advertisement the King having supped and the sooner for that Cause and the Queen's Majesty being in her Cabinet within her inner Chamber at the Supper the King sent to the said Earl and Lords and their Complices and desired them to make haste and come into the Palace for he should have the door of the Privy Passage open and should be speaking with the Queen before their coming conform to his Device rehearsed before Then the said Earl of Morton Lord Ruthen and Lord Lindsey with their Complices passed up to the Queen 's utter Chamber and the said Lord Ruthen passed in through the King's Chamber and up through the privy way to the Queen's Chamber as the King had learned him and through the Chamber to the Cabinet where he found the Queen's Majesty sitting at her Supper at the middes of a little Table the Lady Argile sitting at one end and Davie at the head of the Table with his Cap on his head the King speaking with the Queen's Majesty and his hand about her Waste The said Lord Ruthen at his coming in said to the Queen's Majesty It would please your Majesty to let yonder Man Davie come forth of your presence for he hath been over-long here Her Majesty answered What Offence hath he made The said Lord replied again that he had made great Offence to her Majesty's Honour the King her Husband the Nobility and Commonweal of the Realm And how saith she It will please your Majesty said the said Lord he hath offended your Majesty's Honour which I dare not be so bold to speak of As to the King your Husban's Honour he hath hindred him of the Crown Matrimonial which your Grace promised him besides many other things which are not necessary to be expressed And as to the Nobility he hath caused your Majesty to banish a great part and most chief thereof and forefault them at this present Parliament that he might be made a Lord. And as to your Common-weal he hath been a common destroyer thereof in so far as he suffered not your Majesty to grant or give any thing but that which passed through his hands by taking of Bribes and Goods for the same and caused your Majesty to put out the Lord Ross from his whole Lands because he would not give over the Lordship of Melvin to the said Davie besides many other inconveniences that he sollicited your Majesty to do Then the said Lord Ruthen said to the King Sir take the Queen's Majesty your Sovereign and Wife to you who stood all amazed and wyst not what to do Then her Majesty rose on her feet and stood before Davie he holding her Majesty by the plates of the Gown leaning back over in the window his Whiniard drawn in his hand Arthur Erskin and the Abbot of Holy-rood-house the Laird of Cr●ch Master of the Household with the French Apothecary and one of the Grooms of the Chamber began to lay hands upon the said Lord Ruthen none of the King's Party being present Then the said Lord pulled out his Whiniard and freed himself while more came in and said to them Lay not hands on me for I will not be handled and at the incoming of others into the Cabinet the said Lord Ruthen put up his Whiniard And with the rushing in of Men the Board fell to the wallwards with Meat and Candles being thereon and the Lady of Argile took up one of the Candles in her hand and in the same instant the said Lord Ruthen took the Queen in his arms and put her into the King's arms beseeching her Majesty not to be afraid for there was no Man there that would do her Majesty's Body more harm than their own Hearts and assured her Majesty all that was done was the King's own Deed and Action Then the remanent Gentlemen being in the Cabinet took Davie out of the Window and after that they had him out in the Queen's Chamber the said Lord Ruthen followed and bad take him down the privy way to the King's Chamber and the said Lord return'd to the Cabinet again believing that the said Davie had been had down to the King's Chamber as said is but the press of the People hurl'd him forth to the utter Chamber where there was a great number standing who were so vehemently moved against the said Davie that they could not abide any longer but slew him at the Queen 's far Door in the utter Chamber Immediately the Earl of Morton passed forth of the Queen's Majesty's utter Chamber to the inner Court for keeping of the same and the Gates and deputed certain Barons to keep Davie's Chamber till he knew the Queen's Majesty's pleasure and the King 's Shortly after their Majesties send the Lord Lindsey and Arthur Erskin to the said Earl of Morton to pass to David's Chamber to fetch a black Coffer with Writings and Cyphers which the said Earl of Morton delivered to them and gave the Chamber in keeping to Iohn Simple Son to the Lord Simple with the whole Goods there Gold Silver and Apparel being therein In this mean time the Queen's Majesty and the King came forth of the Cabinet to the Queen's Chamber where her Majesty began to reason with the King saying My Lord Why have you caused to do this wicked Deed to me considering I took you from a base Estate and made you my Husband What Offence have I made you that ye should have done me such shame The King answered and said I have good reason for me for since you Fellow Davie fell in credit and familiarity with your Majesty ye regarded me not neither treated me nor entertained me after your wonted Fashion for