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
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
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 Ruthvâ—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
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
all highest pain and charge that after may follow And on the morrow after which was Sunday the 10th of March the King directed a Letter subscribed with his hand making mention that it was not his Will that the Parliament should hold for divers Causes but discharged the same by the Tenor thereof And therefore commanded all Prelats Earls Lords Barons Commissioners and Barrowis and others that are warned to the said Parliament to depart from Edenburg within three hours next after that Charge under the pain of Life Lands and Goods except so many as the King by his special command caused to remain which Letter was openly proclaimed at the Market-Cross and fully obeyed The Gates being locked the King being in his Bed the Queen's Majesty walking in her Chamber the said Lord Ruthen took air upon the lower Gate and the privy Passages and at the King's Command in the mean time Davie was hurled down the steps of the Stairs from the place where he was slain and brought to the Porter's Lodg where the Porter's Servant taking off his Clothes said This hath been his Destiny for upon this Chest was his first Bed when he entred into this place and now here he lieth again a very ingrate and misknowing Knave The King 's Whiniard was found sticking in Davie's side after he was dead but always the Queen inquired of the King where his Whiniard was who answered that he wit not well Well said she it will be known afterwards On the morrow which was Sunday March 10. the King rose at eight of the Clock and passed to the Queen's Majesty's Chamber where he and she fell to reasoning of the Matter proceeded the night afore the one grating on the other till it was ten a Clock that the King came down to his Chamber and at his coming from her she desired him to let all the Ladies and Gentlewomen come unto her which the King granted and at his coming down shewed the same to the Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthen who were not contented with the same and shewed the King that they feared that the Queen's Majesty would traffick by them with the Lords and all other that would do for her like as it followed indeed For instantly her Majesty wrote some Writing and caused them to write others in her Name to the Earls of Argile Huntly Bothwel Athol and others After that the King had dined on Sunday he passed up to the Queen's Majesty's Chamber where the Queen made as she would have parted with Barn and caused the Midwife come and say the same So her Majesty complained that she could get none of the Gentlewomen to come up to her Scots nor French The King sending this word to the Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthen all were let in that pleased At the same time the Queen's Majesty thought that the Lord Ruthen would do her Body harm and sent Iohn Simple Son to the Lord Simple to the said Lord Ruthen to enquire what her Majesty might lippen unto in that behalf Whose answer was that he would no more harm to her Body than to his own Heart if any Man intended to do otherwise he should defend her Majesty Body at the uttermost of his Power And further the said Lord said her Majesty had experience of his mind in that Night's proceeding when he suffered none come near her Majesty to molest and trouble her The said Iohn Simple brought this Message to the said Lord Ruthen at two of the Clock Afternoon on Sunday sitting then in the King 's utter Chamber at his Dinner At four of the Clock the King came down to his Chamber where the Lord Ruthen shewed him that the Queen's Majesty was to steal out among the throng of the Gentlewomen in their downcoming as he said he was advertised So the King commanded him to give attendance thereto which he did and put certain to the Door and let no Body nor Gentlewoman pass forth undismuffled After about 7 or 8 of the Clock the Earls of Murrey and Rothes with their Complices came out of England and lighted at the Abbey and were thankfully received of the King and after certain communing the Earl of Murrey took his Good-night of the King and passed to the Earl of Morton's House to Supper Immediately thereafter the Queen's Majesty sent one of her Ushers called Robert Phirsell for the said Earl of Murrey who passed to her Majesty whom she received pleasantly as appeared and after communing he passed to the Earl of Morton's House again where he remained that Night At this time the King remained communing with the Queen's Majesty and after long reasoning with her she granted to lie with him all Night he coming to her Chamber and putting all men out of his utter Chamber except the Waiters of his Chamber and made a complaint that her Gentlewomen could not go forth at the door undismuffled at the King 's coming down He shewed the said Earl of Morton and Lord Ruthen the whole manner of his proceedings with the Queen's Majesty which they liked no way because they perceived the King grew effeminate again and said to him we see no other but ye are able to do that thing that will gar you and us both repent Always he would have the said Earl and Lord to rid all the House conform to the Queen's Majesty's desire which they did and the said Lord Ruthen passed and lay in the King's Wardrobe and after he was lien down George Douglass came to him and shewed him that the King was fallen asleep The said Lord caused George to go to wake the King and after that he had gone in twice or thrice finding him sleeping so sound he would not awake him Thereat the said Lord was very miscontented the King slept still till six in the morning that the Lord Ruthen came and reproved him that he had not kept his Promise to the Queen's Majesty in lying with her all that Night His answer was that he was fallen on such a dead sleep that he could not awaken and put the blame to William Tellor one of his Servants that permitted him to sleep But always said he I will take my Night-gown and go up to the Queen The said Lord Ruthen answered and said I trust she shall serve you in the Morning as you did her at Night Always the King passed up being Monday the 11th of March at six of the Clock to her Majesty's Chamber and sat down on the Bedside she being sleeping or at least made her self so and sat there by the space of one hour e're she spake word to him Then when her Majesty waked she enquired of the King why he came not up yesterday night conform to his Promise He answered he fell in so dead a sleep that he awaked not afore six Now saith he am I come and offered to lie down beside her Majesty but she would not suffer him for she was sick and said she would rise incontinent Then the King fell