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A05351	The copie of a letter writen out of Scotland by an English gentlema[n] of credit and worship seruing ther, vnto a frind and kinsman of his, that desired to be informed of the truth and circumstances of the slaunderous and infamous reportes made of the Queene of Scotland, at that time restreined in manner as prisoner in England, vpon pretense to be culpable of the same.	Leslie, John, 1527-1596.	1572 (1572)	STC 15503; ESTC S103368	31,468	132

not onely the Queenes highnes was vtterly innocent and vnwitting of the Lord Darleys death but that the same was cōmitted chiefly by the counsel inuention and drift of the Earle Murrey and some others whose names I spare for iust respectes Secondly the Lord Harris a stout graue faithful Noble man who was at the first made priuy to the deuise after vpon good causes to long to be rehersed in this letter withdrew himself from any farther action or dealing in the matter tolde an Earle yet liuing to his face euen at the Earles owne table nulla circuitione vsus that the saide Earle was of counsell to the murder of the Lorde Darley And afterward at Yorke did the like openly in presence of the English Commissioners to the face of Murrey and of the other whose name I will forbeare to expresse in hope of his repentance and there protested that he well knewe the Queene to be vtterly giltlesse and innocente of the matter nobly demaunding the combat of them both in that quarrel Thirdly when the Confederates hauing nowe laid and raised so farfoorth the foundation of their building that they thought the worlde blinded with the mistes they had cast would iudge they had reason in their doings then proceeded they to open rebellion taking armes and assembling people agaynst their Queene whome they falsely charged with diuers crimes without care of their conscience allegeance the offense of God or regarde to any other honest or duetiful respect being caried hedlong with a furious desire only to that end wherto their restlesse ambitious heads had so longe before bended their Macheuelian practises The Queene seeing this assembled likewise a strong armie of her faithful subiects to represse these Rebels Wherevpō thei perceiuing her Heighnes to draw fast toward them sent to her from Edenborough where by the fauour of Sir Iames Balfore the Ca●●ellan they had assembled them selues and their power a Noble mā yet lyuing who in the names of al the lords and other confederats did most humbly vpon his knees assure her Highnes of the securitie of her person of the safetie both of her life and honour and of al loialtie and obedience at their hands if it would please her Grace to forbeare force to come peaceably into the towne of Edenbrough ioyne with them in searching out pōnishing the murder of the Lord Darley her late husband the reuēge wherof they sayed was the only cause of their assembly and that in so doing her Highnes shuld finde them al there as ready to serue her to the sheding of their blood as any in her owne armie there present The good Queene hearing this their humble sute and thinking them to haue meant as plainly and honourably as she did loth if it might be auoided to see such effusion of the blood of her subiectes as was like otherwise to follow and being armed with the secure testimonie of a giltlesse conscience hauing there withall a minde no lesse desirouse in dede to see the horrible murder of her late moste deare husbande boulted out and duely punnished as so heinouse a crime deserued then they in wordes pretended to haue carriyng with her the innocēcy of her owne cōscience yeelded ouer soone to this the● fraudulent sute and so leauing her power made repaire into the Towne of Edenborough where when shee was arriued expecting to haue bene in solemne and dutifull sort receiued by the Lordes according to the saide Noble mannes woordes and pretensed promises made in all their names her Highnesse to her greate amasinge founde all contrary For her aduersaries proudlye remaining in her Graces Palace ▪ whereof they hadde possessed themselues seeing nowe the praie in their handes which they had so long hunted after and whereon they intended to feede their bloudy and ambitiouse mindes were so farre from dooing that whiche they had promised and she expected that they caused her to alight at a marchantes house there rudely and homely vsing her Grace al that daie the next night made her priuily and spedely to be cōueied in disguised apparel to the strōg Castel of Loghleuen where within a few daies she was dispoiled of her Princely ornaments and clothed with a course broune ca●●ocke And though the good Lady ful often remembred vnto them their faithful promises made most pitiful earnest intercessiō that shee might be brought before the Counsel to haue her cause iustly examined yet for al this could finde no maner fauour or iustice at their handes The said Earle Murrey then hauing brought his reckenings to this passe presently without shame or farther cunctation boldely vsurped and intruded himselfe into the gouernement of the Realme for the whiche his ambitious and traiterous mind had so long and so greedily thirsted The Queene seeing these thinges and being therewith not a litle astonied repented though to late her so quiet relenting to their sute and ouer-quicke crediting their feyned humble promises when shee was in case wel enough by force to haue suppressed them But this her doing gaue ye● a moste cleare and notorious testimonie to the worlde of her innocent conscience tender care of her subiects liues and a plaine honourable mynd farre from crafte and muche farther from such blooddy and cruel malice as could geue cōsent to the murder of her husband whome shee so dearely loued This her guiltlesse innocencie was yet more notoriously testified when her Highnes being by the merciful prouidence mighty hand of God deliuered out of the strong Castel of Loghleuen enuironed with a brode large water furnished with great garde and nūbers of souldiers whereof the Lorde of the Castel himself ▪ being Murreys halfe brother did euery night kept the keies ▪ whē I say she being thus miraculously deliuered offered by diuers her owne subiects to be trustely cōueied into their qua●ters wher they would warran● her Grace safely to remain a● libertie to haue gone freely to any forreyne Prince at whose hands she might well hope fo● aide in her iust cause ageyn●● her vnnatural subiects namel● in France where while she● was Queene shee had by h●● many vertues gayned great● loue and estimation and wher● the worthie Cardinall of Loraine and the reast of her Noble Uncles bare vnder the yong King and his mother the chiefe swey in the gouernment of the Realme did yet for the more notoriouse clearyng of her selfe and notifiyng of her innocencie to the world chuse voluntarily to make her repaire into Englande where shee knewe were the Earle of Lineux and the Noble Princesse the Ladie Margarete her late husbandes father and mother who she trusted would not see the blood of their deare sonne vnreuenged where also shee knewe were a worthie sorte of Noble menne who woulde by all likelyhood affoord their traueile in the indifferente examination of the cause and therevppon finding out the truth would doe iustice to the guiltie for the murder of their Noble countrieman and see the innocent both

hath before opened I wil therefore desiring herein to be as short as I may forbeare the repeating thereof againe in this place and proceede to the nexte Acte of this Tragedie Yet one thing farther may I not omitte to shew what faith and fidelitie was in this Traitor Murrey who seemed now to haue cast away al shame al regard not onely to God and his Prince but also of his own honour fame and credit For after all things brought to the termes you see euen as he would haue it yet could he not by any meanes brynge these thinges to suche passe but that diuers yet of the principal Nobilitie of Scotland fauored the Queene remained her faithfull and loyall subiectes soliciting daily by all meanes they could for by force they were not hable to compound these greate garboiles and troubles and to procure by some treatie the deliuery and reducing of their Queene whome bysides their duetie of allegeance they singulerly loued and honoured for her liberalitie clemencie wisedome and other singuler vertues They hauing therefore with earnest solicitation procured that Murrey was at the last contente to come to a parlee with them and to geue them safe conduct which he did with such other assurance by promise confirmed by oth and writing of free passing and repassing with safetie as they thought sufficient and so might if there had ben leaft in him any honor honestie feare of God or shame of the world behold euen in the midst of their talke and conference aboute pacification of their great troubles he caused violent handes to be sodainely laied on the Duke of Chastleroy the moste Noble and principall Peere of that Realme and on that graue stoute aud faithfull Noble man the Lorde Harris and cast them bothe into close and straight prison contrarie to his promise faith safe conduct and assurance geuen vnto them What Turke would so haue vsed himselfe How euidently did this part shew that he was rather of a Punike then of a Christian● faith Howe truely saith the wiseman Impius cum in profundum venerit contemnit sed sequitur eum ignominia opprobrium The wicked man when he is come to the bottome of iniquitie becōmeth unpudēt but shame reproch foloweth him Whiche you shall soone see verified in this man who se●ed now to thinke him selfe in such securitie as he contemned al honest respects conscience honour honestie faith feare of God or any other thing that good men vse to regard in al their actions This bastard Earle hauing now by these blouddy faithlesse steps atteined to that absolute regiment of the Realme of Scotland by the murder of Dauid the Secretarie of that goodly yong Prince the Lord Darley the traiterouse imprisoning o● the Queene his Soueraigne the shameful slandering of her and the violente pulling from her and sea●ing into his bloudy clawes not only all her ●ewels and treasours but her deere childe also and only comforte now remaining to take his turne the same waie his father was sent ere he should grow vp to any yeares and discretion to take notice of these thinges it remained that God hauing for suche causes as to his prouidence were best knowen permitted this wicked man beeing leaft ouer to his owne lustes thus farre to proceede in his mischiefe would now both by shew of his mercie and iustice geue matter to the fourth Act of this Tragedy He therefore casting doune from his high heauēly Throne a pitiful eye and enclining his mercifull eare to the ●uefull lamentations of this wofull innocent and desolate Ladie criyng to him daie and nighte for some comfort redresse of these so many so intolerable wrōgs done vnto her did first of his Diuine mercie and compassion miraculousely deliuer this pretiouse Iewell this Noble and innocent Quene out of the strongest prison of Scotlād throughly furnished with numbers of souldiers enuironned with large deepe waters and garded by the very brother of this traitour Murrey with the assistence and lewd aduise of their dishonest mother This beeing done by Gods woonderfull prouidence the Queene tendering not so much the recouerie of her Croune as her honour and fame by that wretched Murrey his Complices so shamefully touched and vniustly impaired with many that knew no more o● these deepe practises then that that was openly geuē forth to her slaunder by the said Murrey and his fautors and now ●f●soues poursued by the saied Murrey by violence and force of armed men to haue ben murdered in open field if by the slaughter and death of many her faithfull subiectes her owne life had not bene redemed shee laying aside al other respectes tooke her waie into England ▪ where the Father and Mother of her murdered husbād dwelt by whose meanes and good assistence shee nothing doubted● but to get this soule matter indifferently examined the truth to be boulted out and thereby her innocencie made cleere to the world by the iust reuenge that the Noble menne of that Realme assisted with her owne loyall subiectes in Scotlande would take vpon those her rebels and most vnnaturall murderers of her deere husband But when her Highnesse comming with this honorable intent was by Gods guiding safely arriued in England behold she being at her first landing gētly receiued was alas soone after apprehended and after a sorte cast there againe into prison So greate was the solicitation of her Aduersaries and so great an impression had the slaunderous bruits and traiterous practises of the said Murrey and his friendes made there in the mindes not onely of the Noble men but almost ●f all others generally Howbeit God that knew the secrets of al after this notorious shewe of his merciful compassion by the miraculouse deliuerie of this innocent Ladie out of the handes of her greatest ennemies that intended her death into a more mild prison where shee was safe from suche blooddy attemptes whiche shee did with reason fearefully expecte in the other euery houre permitted Satan sone after to paie certaine the principal instruments and aduācers of this his seruice with their due deserued hire For first he suffered a spirit of phrenesie to enter into the person of that Noble yong Prince the Earle of Arrane eldest sonne to the Duke of Chastleroy which Erle of Arrane being in Frāce of great estimatiō for his goodly person wit courage and nobilitie and hauing there great charge credit and very honourable interteinement was by this traitour Murrey and an Embassador then liggier there whom I wil forbear to name so finely practised with being promised y if he would ioyne with Murrey in these attēpts he should haue in England Scotland dubble the interteinment he h●● there and perhaps marie with the best in England whereof they gaue him diuerse waies no small shewe of great likelihod that he vnwisely condescending to their lewd coūsel craftie persuasions leaft the very honourable estate and interteinment that he had in France becomming vpō these hopes