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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65265	Historicall collections of ecclesiastick affairs in Scotland and politick related to them including the murder of the Cardinal of St. Andrews and the beheading of their Queen Mary in England / by Ri. Watson.	Watson, Richard, 1612-1685.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1091; ESTC R27056	89,249	232

his Chamber and the opinion of self-assasinate at his door Not long after was Sir Edward Wotton sent Ambassador into Scotland to renew a league and present the King with his English retinue which the Regents in his Minority had neglected or pawned for auxiliary support of their power While conditions about this and a marriage with the King of Denmarks daughter were making at Court some others were broken at a meeting upon the borders where though the usual Oath for mutual security was taken the Earl of Bedford was slaine and though by whom not known yet the Lord Fernihurst Governor of the middle Borders was accus'd and imprisoned because a firm adherent to the Queen of Scots and the Earl of Arran c●nfined b●cause a favorite of the Kings The charge was fiercely prosecuted by the English who in the name of the Queen demanded to have their persons delivered which not obtain'd the E●rl of Angus Marre Glames and other presc●ibed Fugitive● are sent home who have no sooner set foot in Scotland but by the advice and assistance of the Assembly brethren they summon all ●n the Kings name to them for defense of the Evangel removing ill Counsellors from the King and conserving the old amity with the English Being got into a body of 8000 at Fankirk Arran transgresseth the rules of his confinement to expres●e a more considerable duty to the King unto whom he accuseth Patrike Grey of this Treason which he cunningly declines and fortifies Sterlin in d●fense of the King but the work was not done when the Rebells drew near and began to set their scaling Ladders to the walls The Earl of Arran knowing his p●rson was principally aim'd at for Lord Fernihurst was lately dead in prison conveighs himself and one Servant away privately by a bridge and then the Town-garrison retreat unto the King in the Castle The Rebells display their banners in his sight Lord Grey is sent out to demand the reason of their coming receives a meek answer To kiss the Kings hands The King expresseth no liking of their armed love offers restitution of all their goods if they will depart They will have the interest of admission to his presence and when they have it capitulate for his Castles and chief holds which there being no remedy are granted with the delivery up of divers noble-men Earls Montross Crawford Rothsay c. their pardon signed and the Treaty for a league with the Queen of England renewed One Article whereof had it be●n sooner agreed on had preserved both Kingdoms in better security fetter'd the unruly Di●cipline to its duty viz That neither Prince should for time to come afford assistance or favour to any Traytor or Rebell or any that had made a publick defection nor suffer them to be relieved by others nor harbour them publickly or privately in their Dominions c. And had another been omitted which when before care had been taken for defense of the Christian and Catholick Religion draws in the rea●m of The pure Reformation which the Catholick Romans interpreted by the Scotch negative confession and the Catholick Protestants by the many Assembly Acts condemning and branding the sacred Episcopal order and jurisdiction as Antichristian happily the persons of both Princes had not been engaged in such after-hazard nor had such designes been prosecuted for the invasion of their Kingdoms For this Treaty was no sooner concluded but a most desperate conspiracy in England broak out supposed to be long since laid by the too zealous consistory at Rome but took life now being hastily hatched by some preternatural Scotch Assembly● hear in this agreement The chief actors in it were Father Ballard a Priest of the Seminary at Rhemes Babington a a young ingenious and learned Gentleman of a good extraction and Family in Darby-Shire Sarisbury of Derbigh-shire Tichbourne of Hampshire with ten other Gentlemen of good quality all which were afterward hanged and some dismembred alive in St Giles's fields the common place of their meeting Their designe was to have kill'd Queen Elizabeth set at liberty the Queen of Scots and by the help of For●eign strength to have altered the face of Religion in both kingdoms The Q. of Scots though suspected to be private unto all three in the general yet p●ofess'd to her death that she encouraged none but that which nature suggesting and justifying conduced to the liberty of her injured person and half restitu●ion to ●er Crown Her two Secretaries Nave and Curle were brought in by Walsinghams cunning if not corrupted rather by his cost very unnaturally to accuse her who as from the beginning he daily instructed a false Brother with as much hypocrisie and perjury as could be to carry on this fatal contrivance so 't is not certain whether by him and other polit●ck instruments he had he discovered or made more of what was desperate in the plot Before the Queen of Scots came to her tryal several judgements passed upon her in private anticipating the enquiry after better evidence and the●r Soveraigns prerogative in granting pardon at her pleasu●e They whom neither the fury of Disciplinarian zeal nor any private malignant spirit had possessed deliliberately sounding the shallowness of her guilt and computing the shortness of her life by her sickness adjudged her only to a stricter confinement and adventu●'d to have the possibilities of ●ischie● prevented by the p●udence of the State Others who had been lighted to a Religion that made murder and innocence consistent did not care if some wickedness were invented to d●spach her quickly any way so by the Law Leicester as otherwise so desirous to become voluptuous in revenge ●n●used his sentence in a cup of ling●ing poyson that he might take at leisure his delight in the preassurance of her death And wanting an help to discourse at his Feast invited Walsingham to accompany him in judgement and sent a Presbiterian Divine to prepare his Conscience by a Classica●l indulgence but he pretends he had refused a less courtesie to Morton who it may be to ballance the guilt of both Kingdoms had advised to have her sent into Scotland and executed on the Borde●s yet having compromised his Vote as the major part should determine it begins to rectifie their method and puts them upon debate by what Law they should proceed There were but two cited for their purpose one of 25 Edward 3. the other 27 Eliz. The latter was concluded the more proper because in effect confessed to be made upon designe and so more naturally operative for the end it was intended to Those of the Iuncto knew what arguments were most prevalent with the Queen to signe a Writ of Delegacy for enquiry wherein a multitude were nominated who must not deny to serve up their honours and sacrifice their conscience in appearance unto their Queens name but indeed to some more

their admission into the Holy Island The Letters were not obeyed by Earl Hunsdon who d●sputed the Secretaries single separate authority nor was the Queen hearken●d to otherwise then by yeilding a legal tryal which cost Gowrie h●s Head for all the promises he had of better success from o●e Maclen a W●tch whom he had consulted in the case To ballance this somewhat must be done by the Disciplinarian undertakers in England who frame divers L●tters in the name of the Queen of Scots and some English fugitives conveigh them into the Papists houses and then make discovery of a plot Hereupon as slight and improbable as the proofs were the Earls of Northumberland and Arundel were confined his Lady imprison'd divers examin'd and the Lord Paget scarcely by h●s prudent innocency protected Queen Elizabeth though facile in hearing their complaints was not so barbarous as to execute the cruelty of their Counsels but called her Judges to account for their extream serverity against the Papists granting indemnity and liberty to many Iesuits and Priests Yet Mendoza the Spanish Ambassador was sent home and Throckmorton whom he was said to have encouraged in an intricate conspiracy being neither constant in denying nor clear in confessing nor at all cunning in concealing or disguising his guilt was hang'd A new Treaty between the two Queens is now commenc'd and Sir William Wade imployed in an overture unto the Queen of Scots but the Agitators of differences between them renew their division by unseasonable jealousies and fears and Wade falls to pasting Father Creyghtone the Iesuits torn papers together neglecting a far more Christian and honourable artifice which he might ha●e s●ewed by cementing the unhappy rupture in two so Royal and magnanimous Ladies hearts This new discomposure gave the Scottish partizans in England a colourable pretense to enter into an association for Queen Elizabeths security from danger which was managed by the policy of the Earl of Leicester The Queen of Scots took hence an alarum o● her ruine yet chose rather to submit somewhat of her spirit then in an humour sacrifice her life unto their malice She sends her Secretary Nave with Articles so near Queen Elizabeths demands as had wrought undoubted reconcilement if it had been consistent with the Discipline of the Kirk but this the Scotch Ministry declared to be otherwise in their Pulpits call out for help as if both Kingdoms had been on ●ire and Christian Religion in danger to be consumed by the flames inve●gh bitterly against their Queen King and his Council slight the Kings summons to answer stand upon their Ecclesiastical exemption and Presbyterian privilege of immunity from his censure The King began from hence to apprehend it better for his safety and more agreeable with his honour to restore the Mi●er to the Church then cast away his Crown to a mungrel lay-Clerical Assembly Hereupon he recalls Bishops to their primitive jurisdiction and dignity inhibites all Presbyteries and their Synods together with the popular parity of Ministers and among other Acts pas●eth this in the eight Parliament●olden at Edenburgh May 22. 1584. which alone cuts off all their vaine ●retences to this day For as much as some persons being ●ately called before the Kings Maje●ty and his secret Council to answer ●pon certain points to have been enqui●ed of t●em concerning some treaso●able seditious and contumelious ●●eeches uttered by them in Pulpits ●chools and otherways to the disdain ●nd reproach of his Highness his Pro●enitors and present Council con●●mptuously declined the judgement of ●is Highness and his said Council in that behalf to the evill example of others to d● the like if timely remedy be not provided Therefore our S●veraigne Lord and his thre● Estates assembled in this present Parliament ratifieth and approveth and perpetually confirmeth the Royal power and authority over all Estates as well spiritual as temporal within this Realm in the person of the Kings Majesty our Soveraigne Lord his Heirs and Successors And also statuteth and ordaineth that his Hign●ss his Heirs and Successors by themselves and their Councils are and in time to com● shall be judges competent to all person His Highnesses subjects of what estate degree function or condition so 〈◊〉 they be spiritual or temporal in 〈◊〉 matters wherein they or any of the● shall be apprehended summoned 〈◊〉 charged to answer to such things 〈◊〉 shall be enquired of them by our 〈◊〉 Soveraigne Lord and his Council And that none of them which shal● happen to be apprehended called 〈◊〉 summoned to the effect aforesaid pr●sume to take in hand to d●cline 〈◊〉 judgement of his Highness his Heirs and S●ccessors or their Council in the Premises under the pain of Treason This Act puts many of the Assembly birds upon the wing who i●n●cent D●●es take none but a Virgin breast for their refuge Queen Elizabeth whose too industri●us infirmi●y it was to keep up her popular interest with all as well as to enjoy the honour and more clear content of an impartial conscience within her self although she gave no ear to their querulous Remonstrances in private nor permitted their publick libelling in her Churches yet cherished their persons and very unproperly imployed their endeavours to preserve Religion from innovations which made no such real impressions in Scotland as some untrue aggravating relations had in the time●ous minds of her Reformed English Subjects and her self This practise of Her Majesty being observed by those who looked ou● of the Scotch Kings Court put the Earl of Arran upon a forward tender of his Service to meet Her Majesties desires and Her Agent the Lord Hunsdon upon the borders but before the time the Sterlin fugitives whom she had protected were prescribed and at it charged by the Earl with their treason against the King The complement he left of his real intentions at parting took place until Patrike Grey came with another Embassie and particular Articles from King Iames But the ill offices it was suspected he did at the same time to the captive Queen gain'd him no reputation with her party and put her upon some such extraordinary courses as betrayed her into a new prison under more restraint and L●icester 't is said upon murderous designes who would not hear of her liberty lesse of her succession to the English Crown To cover whose private spleen and malitious attempts new fears are fetched from the Romane Catholicks and their designes magnified in a mist unto the people whereby a sharper edge is set upon the severity of the Laws This alteration encouraged some of the precise Scottish Religion to pursue the Queens commands for pressing in Parliament to have the Bishops reformed and to others as may be not improbably conjectur'd to murder the Earl of Northumberland in the Tower because a known Friend to the Queen of Scots though they left the pistol wherewith they acted it in