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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

promised for their security and to that effect sent for the Lord Simple and desired him that he would pass to Dunbar with a Writing of the Lords which he granted to do and received the same with a Copy of the Articles that the King received before and promised to do his utter diligence to get the same immediately sped if it were the King and Queen's Majesties pleasure so to do After the Lord Simple's coming to Dunbar having presented the Lords Writing to their Majesties he was evil taken with the Queen's Majesty who caus'd him to remain three days he reported at his returning that there was no good way to be looked for there but Extremity to the Earls Lords and Gentlemen who had been at the Slaughter of David notwithstanding her Majesty's promise made before At that time her Majesty being in Dunbar wrote to all Earls Lords Barons to meet her in Haddington Town the 17th or 18th of March and likewise directed universal Letters charging all manner of men betwixt 60 and 16 to be there day and place aforesaid being in Arms in fear of War and also sent divers charges to the Lord Eskin Captain of the Castle of Edenburgh to shut up the Town unless the Lords departed out of it In this time it was declared to the Earl of Murray that if he would sue Address to the Queen's Majesty he would obtain the same who shewed the same to the Lords who counselled him to write to her Majesty to that effect which he did and received her Majesty's Answer with certain Articles In this time the Earl of Glencarn and Rothes took their Appointment of the Queen's Majesty The Earl of Morton Lord Ruthen and remanent their Complices perceiving that the Queen's Majesty was willing to remit the Lords banished into England and Argyle and bare her Majesty's whole rage against them that were with the King at the Slaughter of Davie thought best to retire themselves into England under the Queen's Majesty of England's Protection till such time as the Nobility of Scotland their Peers understood their Cause for they have done nothing without the King's Command as is before mentioned and doubt not but their Cause shall be found just and honest whensoever the same be tried and lament the extream handling contrary to Order and Justice that they may not compear for fear of their lives in respect that her Majesty hath caused a Band to be made and all Earls Lords and Barons that resorted to her Majesty to subscribe the same that they shall pursue the said Earl Morton Lord Ruthen and Lindsay and their Complices with Fire and Sword which is against all Order of the Law And on Saturday the 22d of March her Majesty hath caused to be summoned the said Earl of Morton Lords Ruthen and Lindsay the Master of Ruthv●n Lairds of Ormyston Brinston Halton Elvelston Calder Andrew Carr of Faldomside Alexander Ruthen Brother to the Lord Ruthen Patrick Murray of Tippermure William Douglas of Whittingham Mr. Archibald Douglas his Brother George Douglas Lyndzay of Prystone Thomas Scot of Cambysmichet of Perth William Douglas of Lochleven Iames Ieffert of Shreffal Adam Eskin Commendator of Camskinnel Mentershfear of Kars Patrick Ballenden of Stenehouse Brother to Justice Clerk Patrick Wood of Conyton Mr. Iames Magil Clerk of Registers with others to compear before her Majesty and secret Council within six days under the pain of Rebellion and putting them to her Horn and eschetting and bringing of all their moveables Goods the which like Order is not used in no Realm Christened nor is it the Law of Scotland of old but new cropen in and invented by them that understand no Law nor yet good practise and how her Majesty hath handled the Barons of Lothian our Brothers it is known and in likewise our poor Brethren of Edinburgh Merchants and Craftsmen and how they are oppressed by the Men of War God knoweth who will put remedy hereto when it pleaseth him best and how the Lords and Barons Wives are oppressed in spoiling of their Places robbing of their Goods without any Fine for the same it would pity a godly Heart And where her Majesty alledgeth that night that Davie was slain some held Pistols to her Majesties Womb some stroke Whiniards so near her Crag that she felt the coldness of the Iron with many other such like Sayings which we take God to record was never meant nor done for the said Davie receiv'd never a Stroke in her Majesty's presence nor was not stricken till he was at the farthest Door of her Majesty's utter Chamber as is before rehearsed Her Majesty makes all these Allegations to draw the said Earl Morton Lords Ruthen and Lindsay and their Complices in greater hatred with other foreign Princes and with the Nobility and Commonalty of the Realm who have experience of the contrary and know that there was no evil meant to her Majesty's Body The eternal God who hath the rule of Princes Hearts in his hands send her his Holy Spirit to instruct her how she should rule and govern with Clemency and Mercy over her Subjects Written at Berwick day of March 1565. Buchanan Fol. 211. IN the first place she took care that the Body of David which had been buried without the Doors of the next Church should be removed by night and placed in the Sepulchre of the last King and his Children Which unworthy and unexempled Action gave further occasion to disadvantagious Reports of her For what said they can be a more manifest Confession of her Adultery than to make as far as in her lies a sordid Villain who had nothing commendable in himself nor had done any thing useful to the Publick equal in the last of all Honours paid to Men with her Father and Brothers and which seemed yet to be almost a great Indignity to put an impure Fellow Raskal as it were into the Arms of the late Queen Magdalen de Valois In the mean time she never ceased from menacing her Husband deriding him with bitter raillery and using the utmost of her Power to extinguish his Authority with all Men and to render him as contemptible as she could Strict inquiry was made concerning the slaughter of David Many of those who were suspected to be concerned were banished to different places more were fined in Sums of Mony and some who had hardly any part in the Action and for that reason thought themselves secure were punished capitally with death for the principal Persons engaged in that Affair had either escaped into England or concealed themselves in the mountainous Countries of Scotland All Offices of the Magistracy and Places of Trust were taken away from every one who was in the least suspected and conferred upon their Enemies And a Proclamation was published forbidding men to say that the King had any knowledg or part in the death of David But this notwithstanding the publick Calamities was entertained with a general Laughter In April following these Disturbances being a little calmed the Earls of Argile and Murrey were receiv'd into Favour the Queen retired into the Castle of Edinburg the time of her lying in approaching and on the 19th of June a little after nine she was brought to bed of a Son who was afterwards called James the 6th Equinoctialem It was reported that one John Damiette a French Priest who was accounted a Magician had often admonished him David that having got much Wealth he should be gone and so secure himself from the hatred of the Nobility who were too strong a Party for him and that his answer was That the Scots were more ready to talk than to fight And that a few days before his death being advised to beware of the Bastard he said That so long as he lived the Bastard should not have such Power in Scotland as to cause him to fear He thought the Earl of Murrey was meant by that Name But whether this Warning was fulfilled or eluded so it was in fact That George Douglass a Bastard of the Earl of Angus gave him the first Wound Buchanan L. 17. FINIS * To the Earl of Murray * Author of the following Relation † The Duke of Guise and Cardinal of Lorrain * The Queen