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 Monthsâ— 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 Crâ—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
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 RVTHEN 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 LONDON Printed for A. Baldwin in Warwick-lane 1699. Some Remarkable Passages concerning David Rizzi translated from the History of Scotland written by George Buchanan Edit Edinburg Folio 207. AMong the Servants of the Court was one David Rizzi born at Turin His Father was an honest Man but so very poor that all he could do was to maintain himself and his Family by teaching the Elements of Musick Having nothing to leave to his Children he taught them both Sons and Daughters to sing Of these David being young and brisk and trusting to his Voice that was not disagreable and to his Skill in Musick which he had learned from his Father he resolved to try his Fortune and in order to this went to Nice where the Duke of Savoy who had lately been restored to his Dominions kept his Court. But Matters there not answering his Expectation he came to be in such extream want that he knew not well what to do with himself when be hapned to fall in with Signior Moretti who was then as the Duke's Envoy preparing for his Iourney to Scotland he waited on him thither But being there Moretti having but a small Allowance for himself and no great need of his Service dismissed him however David resolved to make some stay and try his Fortune again he was chiefly encouraged to this being told that the Queen delighted in hearing of Songs and was not altogether unskilful in Musick To make his way to her he made an Interest with the Musicians who were for the most part French that he might appear amongst them Thus being heard to sing once or twice she liked him so well that he was immediately added to their Number Having got into this Post and observed the Queen's humour and way he partly by flattering her partly by carrying Stories to her of the other Servants came in a little time to be as much in her Favour as he was hated by the rest of the Family However all this good Fortune could not satisfy him but having either lessened with the Queen such as seemed to be on the same foot of Favour with himself or got them turned out of the Family by his false Suggestions he began insensibly to aspire to meddle in greater Matters till at last he was employed to write her Letters and then he had a fair pretext to be with the Queen alone which afforded him opportunities of doing business with her under-hand All this could not but make a great noise to see a Man who was little better than a Beggar raised on the sudden to great Riches a Man whose Fortune did far exceed his Merit and yet his arrogance in despising his Equals and vying with his Superiors surpassed even his Fortune It was the meanness of a great many of the Nobility that served chiefly to encourage this Fellow in his extravagant Vanity they slavishly made their court to him cringing to him upon all occasions admiring and applauding whatever he said waiting at his Apartment and presenting themselves in his way when he went in or out Only the Earl of Murray one that could never dissemble instead of making his court to him shewed even by his Countenance for the most part the contempt he had of him Which behaviour of the Earl's offended the Queen her self no less than it did David He on the other hand to have a support against the hatred of the chief of the Nobility courted with all the arts of flattery and insinuation Henry Lord Darley who was to marry the Queen and got into that degree of familiarity with him that Darley made him his Companion and Bedfellow and entirely trusted him He perswaded the unwary Young Man who was forward to believe whatever suted his Inclinations that it was by his means chiefly that the Queen had been induced to cast her Eyes upon him He was also daily sowing Discord betwixt Darley and the Earl of Murray for he flattered himself that if he could once get rid of that Earl he might for the rest of his Life take his full career without opposition By this time the Queen's intended Marriage with Darley and his private meetings with her as also her strange familiarity with David were much talked of and censured every where Vpon which the Earl of Murray finding there was nothing to be done and that the good Advice he gave served only to irritate his Sister against him resolved to leave the Court lest he should seem to have any hand in what was doing Fol. 207. These marks of the Peoples affection so incensed the Queen against her Brother as to quicken her to put in execution the Design she had premeditated against his Life The manner was agreed to be thus That the Queen who was then at Perth with little Company should send for the Earl of Murray thither where the Lord Darley should enter into discourse with him and as it was not doubted the Earl would speak plainly and freely the Dispute by that means growing warm David Rizzi should give him the first Wound and then the rest-should dispatch him upon the place Of this Conspiracy the Earl of Murray was informed by his Friends who were in the Court yet being resolved to go he set forward on his Iourney but receiving a second admonition from Patrick Lord Ruthen he turned out of the way and went to visit his Mother at her House which stands situated on the Lake of Leven Fol. 208. There was also another reason which prevailed not a little with the Queen to use expedition in this matter of her Marriage she knew her Vncles were averse to the Match and feared if any longer delay should intervene that some Obstruction might be laid in the way by them which might disturb the whole Business For when that secret Resolution was taken of making a Holy War throughout all Christendom for extirpating the pure Doctrine of the Gospel the Duke of Guise who was designed for Commander in chief of all those Forces having conceived the most unwarrantable and immoderate hopes resolved by the means of his Niece to embroil Britain in Domestick Troubles that they might not be able to send the least assistance to their Friends abroad But David who was in great credit with the Queen insisting that the intended Marriage would be advantageous to Religion on account that Henry and his Father were most strenuous assertors of the Papal Sect agreable to both Nations allied to divers Noble Families and supported by many Friends the thing in dispute was at last forced that way Notwithstanding all which two things seemed
to cross David's Designs if the Marriage should succeed with the consent of the Queen of England and of the Nobility of Scotland the first that he should lose the Honour of being accounted the Author the second that provision would be made for the Security of Religion whereas if the Queen would join her self with the Council of Trent he promised himself Honours Benefices infinite Treasures and uncontrouled Authority For these reasons he left nothing unattempted to precipitate the Marriage and effected it the Scots being not well pleased and the English most highly offended Fol. 209. In the mean time David finding the Court cleared of the principal Persons of the Nobility that he might confirm his intemperate hopes of Power còntinually laboured by rash Advice to excite the Queen to use the coercive Power of the Sword against the Heads of the several Parties assuring her that if a few were removed the rest would not dare to attempt any thing But conjecturing that the Queen's Guards being Scotsmen would not easily consent to the Murder of the Nobility he made it his principal business to turn them out from that Post and to introduce Foreigners which has almost ever been the rise of all Tyranies into that Body To that end a motion was first made to send for Germans that Nation being esteemed to be of great fidelity to their Masters but David having attentively consider'd the matter concluded it to be more commodious for the carrying on of his Designs that Italians should be admitted to that Imployment being perswaded that Men of the same Nation with himself would not only be more intirely under his Power but that having no tincture of any Religion they would be also the most proper Instruments of embroiling Affairs and making no distinction between what is just and what unjust might easily be driven to perpetrate any kind of Villany besides which men indigent and wicked born and educated under Tyrants accustomed to unjust War and who being far from home esteemed nothing in Britain dear to them seemed most fit to support the Innovations intended To this end he began by degrees to send for vagabond Souldiers from Flanders and other Countries upon the Continent who came single and at different times that what was doing might not appear but to offend one of these was more dangerous than to offend the Queen In the mean time as the Power and Authority of David with the Queen increased daily so the King became daily more contemtible to her and to treat him yet with greater indignity David was substituted to sign divers publick Acts in the place of the King Fol. 209. The Queen not contenting her self to have raised David from the meanest obscurity and exposed him to the view of the People in this high degree of Elevation contrived another way of honouring him in a domestick and more familiar manner She had for some Months admitted more Persons than had been usual at her Table that David might have a place there with less envy on account of the number of those who received that honour not doubting by this shew of Popularity the numerous company and daily use the strangeness of the Spectacle would by degrees not only wear off but the Stomach of the stoutest be insensibly accustomed to suffer any thing At last David with only one or two more was permitted to eat with her yet that the straitness of the Place might in some measure diminish the Envy of the Action they sometimes eat in a little Closet and sometimes in David's Chamber But instead of lessening the Publick Envy by these means they increased their own Infamy confirmed former Suspicions and afforded matter for sinister Discourses Another thing fell in also to inflame the minds of Men already disposed to believe the worst that David for surpassed the King in rich Furniture Cloths number and goodness of Horses which Indignity seemed so much the greater by how much his Face contributed more to destroy the effect of every Ornament about him than any of those Advantages to grace his Person Therefore the Queen since she could not correct the faults of Nature endeavours by heaping Honours upon him to advance him into the highest Order of Men that the Meanness of his Birth and his personal Deformity might lie concealed under the cover of a fortuitous Nobility but most especially that by this means having a right of voting in the publick Assemblies he might be enabled to manage those Councils as the Queen should direct And because it was thought necessary to advance gradually and that he might not seem to be an indigent and mercenary Senator their first attempt was made upon a Lordship called by the Seots Malvil and situated near Edinburgh The Possessor of the Lordship with his Father-in-law and such Friends as were thought to have the most influence upon him were sent for to the Queen who endeavoured to prevail with the Lord to deliver up his Possession quietly and to induce his Father-in-law with the rest of his Friends to perswade him so to do But this way not taking effect as was desired the Queen interpreted their refusal as an affront to her and which was more pernicious David was highly offended The People for these things were not done in the dark began to deplore the present Evils and to expect worse every day If men of the most antient Families and Honour might be expelled from the Seats of their Ancestors at the will of an indigent Rascal The old men called to mind and frequently mentioned the time when Cockeran after the barbarous Murder of the King's Brother was advanced from a Porter to the Earldom of Marr and filled the whole Kingdom with Fire and Sword which Desolation terminated in the Death of the King and almost total Sâ—â—bversion of the Kingdom To these things which were publick men in private Discourses added many more as is usual in undecent and scandalous cases But the King resolving to credit nothing save what he should discover by himself being informed that David was gone into the Queen's Chamber he went to the Door of which he always carried a Key and contrary to custom finding it to be bolted within he knocked but no one answering he departed in a great rage and being agitated by most violent Passions passed the greater part of the Night without Sleep Fol. 210. About that time Letters were brought from the Queen of England in which many things concerning the present state of Affairs in Scotland were kindly and prudently treated with a gentle and affectionate admonition to her Kinswoman to lay aside her Passion and to entertain more moderate Counsels The Queen understanding that the Lords knew such Letters were arrived and that no one doubted the Contents called divers of them to her hoping the favour would be interpreted to proceed from inclination and began to read them in their presence But as she was in the course of her reading David openly admonished her that
she had read enough and commanded her to stop which Action was accounted by all to be rather insolent than new for they were not ignorant how arrogantly he used to carry himself to her frequently reproving her with more sharpness than her Husband durst adventure to do Few days after this the Cause of the Exiles was warmly debated in Parliament where some to gratify the Queen moving they might be punished as Traytors and others affirming they had done nothing which deserved so great Severity David in the mean time surrounded the Members one by one and endeavoured to penetrate the intention of each towards those that were banished if he should be chosen President by the rest of the Assembly not doubting openly to discover that the Queen would have them condemn'd and that whoever should oppose her would not only take pains to no purpose but incur her High Displeasure A RELATION Of the Death of DAVID RIZZI Chief Favorite to MARY Queen of Scots c. Written by the Lord RUTHEN IN the first the Lord Ruthen of Scotland a Man of forty and six Years was visited by the Hand of God with great trouble and sickness having two Infirmities the one called the Inflammation of the Liver and the other the Consumption of the Reins and Kidneys wherethrough he kept his Bed continually by the space of three months and was under the cure of Physicians as of the Queen's French Doctor Dr. Preston and Thomas Thompson Apothecary and was so feebled and weakned through the Sickness and Medicines that scarcely he might walk twice the length of his Chamber unsitting down In this mean time the King Husband to the Queen's Majesty of Scotland conceived hatred against an Italian called David Riccio and about the 10th day of February the said King sent his dear Friend and Kinsman George Douglas Son to Archibald sometime Earl of Angus and declared to the said Lord Ruthen how that the said David Riccio had abused him in many sorts and lately had staied the Queen's Majesty from giving him the Crown Matrimonial of Scotland which her Majesty had promised to him divers times before Besides many other Wrongs that the said David had done to him which he could not bear with longer and behoved to be revenged thereof And because the said Lord Ruthen was one of the Nobility that he confided and trusted most unto in respect that his Children and he were Sisters Children therefore he desired his Counsel and Advice what way was best to be revenged on the said David The said Lord Ruthen hearing the Message aforesaid gave answer to George Douglass that he could give no counsel in that Matter in respect he knew the King's Youth and Facility for he had sundry of the Nobility that had given him counsel for his own Honour and Weal and immediately he revealed the same again to the Queen's Majesty who reproved them with great anger and contumelious words So the said Lord Ruthen would have no medling with his Proceedings until the time he could keep his own counsel The said George departed with the said Lord's Answer to the King about the 12th of February The said King hearing the Answer was very miscontented and said It is a sore case that I can get none of the Nobility that will assist me against yonder false Villain Davie The said George answered The said Fault was in your self that cannot keep your own counsel Then the King took a Book and swore thereon that what Counsel soever the Lord Ruthen should give him he would not reveal neither to the Queen's Majesty nor to any others and immediately directed the said George to the said Lord Ruthen again declaring what Oath the King had made Notwithstanding the said Lord Ruthen was eight days thereafter e're he would give any counsel therein howbeit the said King sent the said George to him every day three or four times After eight days were past the which was toward the 20th day of February the said Lord Ruthen perceiving that the King 's whole Intent was but only the slaughter of Davie the said Lord resolved in his mind and considered that he had a good time to labour for certain of the Nobility his Brethren that were banished in the Realm of England and in Argile and specially the Earls of Argile Murray Glencarn and Rothes the Lord Boyd and Ocheltrie and Lairds of Pittarro and Grange with many other Gentlemen and Barons Wherefore so soon as the said George was directed again from the King to him the said Lord Ruthen answered That he could not meddle with the King's Affairs without that he would bring home the Noblemen before rehearsed who were banished only for the Word of God And after long reasoning and divers days travelling the King was contented that they should come home into the Realm of Scotland so that the said Lord Ruthen would make him sure that they would be his and set forward all his Affairs The said Lord gave answer to the King and bad him make his own Security and that he should cause it to be subscribed by the aforesaid Earls Lords and Barons Immediately thereafter the King directed the said George Douglass to the said Lord Ruthen with certain Articles which he desired the said Lord to put in form of Writing to be subscribed by the Lords banished the which the said Lord caused to be put in form And having consideration that the said King desir'd them to be bound to him the said Lord caused to be drawn certain Articles in the said Lords Names for the King's part towards them which the King himself reformed with his own hand in the Margent like as it is to be produced The Articles being penned for both Parties and the King reading and considering the same he was contented therewith and subscribed his part and delivered it to the said Lord Ruthen who sent the other Articles to the Earl of Murray and the remanent being within England and to the Earl of Argile and the remanent being with him in the West who subscribed the same and sent them to the said Lord Ruthen to be kept till their meeting with the King and every one to have their own part The Tenour whereof followeth Certain ARTICLES to be fulfilled by James Earl of Murray Archibald Earl of Argile Alexander Earl of Glencarne Andrew Earl of Rothes Robert Lord Boyd Andrew Lord Ocheltrie and their Complices to the Noble and Mighty Prince Henry King of Scotland Husband to our Sovereign Lady Which Articles the said Persons offer with most humility lowliness and service to the said Noble Prince for whom to God they pray c. Imprimis THE said Earls Lords and their Complices shall become and by the Tenour hereof become true Subjects Men and Servants to the Noble and Mighty Prince Henry by the Grace of God King of Scotland and Husband to our Sovereign Lady That they and all others that will do for them shall take a leyal and true part with
the said Noble Prince in all his Actions Causes and Quarrels against whomsoever to the uttermost of their Powers and shall be Friends to his Friends and Enemies to his Enemies and neither spare their Lives Land Goods nor Possessions 2. Item The said Earls Lords and their Complices shall at the first Parliament and other Parliaments that shall happen to be after their returning within this Realm by themselves and others that have Voice in Parliament consent and by these Presents do consent now as then and then as now to grant and give the Crown matrimonial to the said Noble Prince for all the days of his Life And if any Person or Persons withstand or gainsay the same the said Earls Lords and their Complices shall take such part as the said Noble Prince taketh in whatsoever sort for the obtaining of the said Crown against all and whatsoever that let or deny as shall best please the said Noble Prince 3. Item The said Earls Lords and their Complices shall fortify and maintain the said Noble Prince in his just Title to the Crown of Scotland failing of Succession of our Sovereign Lady and shall justify and set forward the same at their utmost Powers And if any manner of Person will usurp or gainsay the just Title then the said Earls Lords and their Complices shall maintain defend and set forwards the same as best shall please the said Noble Prince without fear of Life or Death and shall seek and pursue them the Usurpers as shall please the said Noble Prince to command to extirp them out of the Realm of Scotland or take or slay them 4. Item As to the Religion which was established by the Queen's Majesty our Sovereign shortly after her arrival in this Realm whereupon Acts and Proclamation was made and now again granted by the said Noble Prince to the said Earls Lords and their Complices they and every of them shall maintain and fortify the same at their uttermost Powers by the help supply and maintenance of the said Noble Prince And if any Person or Persons will gainsay the same or any part thereof or begin to make Tumult or Uproar for the same the said Earls Lords and their Complices to take a full true and plain part with the said Noble Prince against the said Contemners and Usurpers at their uttermost 5. Item As they are become true Subjects Men and Servants to the said Noble Prince so shall they be leyal and true to his Majesty as becometh true Subjects to their natural Prince and as true and faithful Servants serve their good Master with their Bodies Lands Goods and Possessions and shall neither spare Life nor Death in setting forward all things that may be to the Advancement and Honour of the said Noble Prince 6. Item The said Earls Lords and their Complices shall labour at the Queen of England's hands for the relief of the said Noble Prince his Mother and Brother by themselves and such others as they may procure to the uttermost of their power that they may be reliev'd out of Ward or remain in England freely or repair into Scotland as they shall think most expedient without stop or impediment to her self her Son their Servants and Moveables 7. Item The said Earls Lords and their Complices shall by themselves and others that will do for them labour and procure at the Queen of England's hands that the said Noble Prince may have her kindness good-will and assistance in all his Majesty's honourable and just Causes against whatsoever Foreign Prince Certain Articles to be fulfilled by the Noble and Mighty Prince Henry King of Scotland Husband to our Sovereign Lady of his Majesty's mere Clemency and good will to James Earl of Murray Archibald Earl of Argile Alexander Earl of Glencarne Andrew Earl of Rothes Robert Lord Boyd Andrew Lord Stuart of Ocheltrie remaining in England c. Item FIRST The said Noble Prince shall do his good will to obtain them one Remission if they require the same for all Faults and Crimes by-past of whatsoever quality or condition they be And if that cannot be obtained at the first time shall persevere in suing of the same until it be obtained and at the last shall give them a free remission of all Crimes so soon as we are placed by their help and supply to the Crown Matrimonial And in the mean time shall stop and make Impediments so much as lieth in us that they be not called nor accused for whatsoever Crime And presently remits and forgives the aforesaid Earls Lords and their Complices all Crimes committed against us of whatsoever quality or condition they be and do bury and put the same in Oblivion as they had never been And shall receive them at their returning thankfully and with heartiness as others our true and faithful Subjects and Servants 2. Item We shall not suffer by our good wills the foresaid Lords and their Complices to be called or accused in Parliament nor suffer any Forfeitures to be laid against them but shall stop the same at our uttermost Power And if any Person or Persons pretend otherwise we shall neither consent to the holding the Parliament nor yet shall grant to their Forfeiture willingly but shall stop the same to our uttermost Power as said is 3. Item That the said Earls Lords and their Complices returning within the Realm of Scotland we shall suffer or permit them to use and enjoy all their Lands Tackes Steedings and Benefices that they or any of them had before their passage into England And if any manner of Persons do make them Impediments in the peaceable enjoying of the said Lands Steedings Tackes Benefices and Possessions it being made known to us we shall fortify and maintain them to the uttermost of our Powers to the obtaining of the same 4. Item As to the said Earls Lords and their Complices Religion we are contented and consent that they use the same conform to the Queen's Majesty Act and Proclamation made thereupon shortly after her Highness's return out of France And if any Person or Persons pretend to make them Impediment thereunto or to trouble them for using the same Religion we shall take part with the aforesaid Earls Lords and their Complices at our uttermost Power And after their returning upon their good bearing and service to be done to the said Noble Prince shall by their advice consent to the stablishing the Religion now professed and shall concur with them if any persons do withstand them Item We shall fortify and maintain the said Earls Lords and their Complices as a natural Prince should do to his true and Obedient Subjects and as one good Master should fortify and maintain his true and natural Servants against whatsoever in all their just Causes Actions and Quarrels All this while the King kept secret from the Queen's Majesty the whole Proceedings and as her Majesty sought by subtil means to learn of him what was in his mind so crafted he with her to