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[^THE DIAREY OF ROBERT BIRREL, BURGES OF EDINBURGHE, 
1532-1605. ED. J.G. DALYELL. FRAGMENTS OF SCOTTISH HISTORY.
EDINBURGH 1798.
PP. 15.3-51.13.^]

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   The 2 day of Maii, the Queine came oute of Lochleuin by the  #
convoy 
of George Douglas, the laird's zounger brother. Ther mett her, 
after she came out of Lochleuin, certaine Lords; as, namely,    #
Settone,
Herreis, and the Bischope of S=t= Androis, with uthers ther     #
complices, 
and convoyett her to Hamiltone, quher ther wes a grate maney    #
conveinit 
vith diligence. 
   The Regent being in Glasgow, conveinit a grate armey of all  #
these 
yat vald assist him, vith grate suddentie as ves possible, and  #
ther raised 
men of weir on both sydes: during vich tyme, ther wes           #
proclaimed in 
Edinburghe a grate faste for ye space of 8 days. 
   The 13 of Maii, being Thursday, both the armies mett upone   #
Gonew 
Muir, besyde a hill called Langsyde: and ther mett togidder     #
one the 
Queines syde, the Earll of Argyll, and ye Hamiltons led the     #
avant 
guarde.
   My Lord Home led the avant guard of the Regent's armey, and  #
ves 
hurte in the face vith ane speare. The Regent, at the pleasour  #
of God, 
obteined ye victory. In this batell, ther wes slaine about ye   #
number 
of 7 score and 15 persons; and these all one ye Quein's syde,   #
except 
tuo only: but ther wer diverse hurte and voundit, quho dyed     #
afterhend. 
In the midst of the batell, the Queine, despairing of ye        #
victory, fled, 
accompanied vith the Maister of Maxwell, and his companey of    #
Galloway
men, quho tooke away ther fellows horses yat as zet endured     #
the 
brunt of ye batell. Ther wes taken prisoners one the King's     #
syde,
Lord Settone, shriffe of Aire, laird of Trabrone, laird of      #
Innerweike. 
   The 15 day of Maii, the keyes of Hamiltone and Draphane ver  #
delivered
to my Lord Regent.
   The 18 day of Maii, being Tuesday, the Lord Regent came to   #
Edinburghe.
   The 20 day, being Thursday, Hamiltone laird of Innerweike,   #
vith 
9 uther gentlemen quha ver taken in the batell, did underlay    #
the law, 
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and ver convicte by ane assyze, and, after ther hands wes       #
bound, zet 
obteined all of them remissione from ye Regent. 
   The same day, the Queine entred Carleill in England. Her     #
convoys 
ver, the Lords Fleeming, Leuingstone, and Maister of Maxwell.
   The 21 day, being Fryday, the Regent raid to Striveling to   #
the 
chrystening of ye Lord Erskine's chyld.
   The 27 of Maii, being Thursday, the spoyles of the castells  #
of Hamiltone
and Draphane came to the castell of Edinburgh.
   The 28 of Maii, the Regent returned to Edinburghe.
   The 3 day of Junii, being Thursday, James Hendersone of      #
Fordell 
had hes place of Fordell brunt by ane suddaine fyre, both the   #
old worke 
and the new. 
   The 10 day of Junii, Morreis Souttarke was hangit at the     #
crosse of 
Edinburghe, for takeing of ye Regent's vages, and then past to  #
ye 
Quein's syde at the batell of Langsyde.
   The 11 day of Junii, being Fryday, the Lord Regent past out  #
of 
Edinburghe to Biggar vith 2000 men; and the 12 day of this      #
same 
moneth, ye place of Skirlinge, by the Regent's command, ves     #
blowin 
up vith gunpouder, and destroyed; at the quhilk tyme, ye laird  #
therof 
wes in England. 
   The 14 day of Junii, ye Regent caused blow up, vith          #
gunpouder, ye 
castell of Kenmure, belonging to ye laird of Lochinvarre: and   #
ye 27 
day of ye same moneth, ye Regent returned to Edinburghe. 
   The 5 day of Julay, the Regent raid to S=t= Androis, and     #
caused 
drouin a man called Alexander Macker, and sex more, for         #
piracie. 
   The 15 of Julay, Tourane Murray, brother-german to the       #
laird of 
Tullibairdyne, was shote and slaine out of ye place of          #
Aughtertyre in 
Stratherne, be one vode Andrew Murray and his confederatts,     #
quho 
keipt ye said place certaine days, and slew some 6 persons      #
more, zet 
made escaipe at yat present. 
   The 24 day of Julay, the Regent past to Striveling. 
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   The 2 day of Aguste, the peste wes knowen to be in James     #
Dalgliesh's 
hous. 
   This same day, about 2 in the afternoone, S=r= William       #
Steuarte, 
Lyone K. of Arms, departed out of Edinburghe to Dumbrittane     #
castell, 
being suspecte of conspiracey against the life of ye Regent     #
the Earll of 
Murray.
   The 9 of Aguste, ye Regent came to Edinburghe, and ye        #
Persone 
Knowes taken for conspiracey against ye said Regent. 
   The 16 day of Aguste, the Parliament raid, which wes the     #
first day 
therof; the Earll of Mar bore ye croune, Glencairne the         #
scepter, and 
Mortone ye suord; the towne of Edinburghe not being in armes    #
yat 
day. 
   The 18 day, being Vedinsday, the Lords raid also to the      #
tolbuith;
the shouldiers and toune both in armes: and on Thursday they    #
raid in 
lyke manner as the day befor; ye toune in armes. 
   The 22 day of Aguste, being Sonneday, S=r= David Lindesay    #
ves vith 
grate solemnity inaugurate King of Armes, ye most of ye         #
nobility being 
present at the ceremonie with my Lord Regent. He wes            #
proclaimit 
S=r= David Lindesay of Ratheillet, Knight, Lyone King of Armes. 
   The 24 day, being Tuesday, the last day of ye Parliament,    #
the 
Lords raid to ye Parliament Hous, for ye forfaultrey of such    #
as did not 
compeir at ye Parliament.
   The 13 day of September, ye Lord Regent raid to ye faire to  #
Jedburgh
to apprehend the theives; but they being advertised of hes      #
coming,
came nocht to ye faire; sua he wes frustrat of hes intentione,  #
exceptand
three theives quhilk he tooke, and caused hang vithin ye toune 
ther.
   The 3 day of Januarii, Johne Andrew, tailzeour burges of     #
Edinburghe, 
vith hes vyffe, children, and servants, ver takin prisoners by 
the Hamiltones and ransomed, and sua sett at liberty.
   The 8 of Januarii, Johne Auld, miller at the Vater of        #
Leith, drouned 
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in the North Loche, passing over at 4 houres at even; and ane   #
uther 
vith him in grate danger of hes lyffe. 
   The 14 of Januarii, Robert Hepburne, sonne to ye laird of    #
Waughtone,
came to the hous of Waughtone, and brake ye stabills, and       #
tooke 
out 16 horses: the laird of Carmichall being capitane and       #
keiper of the 
said house of Waughtone. They issued out of the place, and      #
slew three 
of them; and divers ver hurt of bothe ye parties.
   The 17 of Januarii, the castell of Draphane randred for      #
laick of 
victualls, by Johnstoun of Vesterhall, being capitane therof,   #
quho randred
it to ye Hamiltouns. 
   The same night, Roslinge surprisit and voune by the laird    #
and hes 
seruants from ye laird of Lochinories seruants, Syme of         #
Panango being 
capitane therof.
   The 26 of Februarii, the Earle of Murray, Regent, came home  #
out 
of Ingland, quho had beine ther since the 21 of September       #
last. 
   1569 endit vithoute aney notable passage more, in that the   #
warding 
of Duck Hamiltone in the castell of Edinburghe in strait        #
prisone. 
   The 23 of Januarii, James Steuarte Earle of Murray, the      #
good Regent
of Scotland, wes slaine in Linlithgow, by James Hamiltone of 
Boduel Haughe, quho shote the said Regent vith a gun out at     #
ane vindow,
and presently therafter fled out at ye backsyde, and leaped     #
one a 
verey good hors, which the Hamiltons had ready vaiting for      #
him; and, 
being followed speedily, after yat spure and vand had failed    #
him, he 
drew forth hes dager, and strooke hes hors behind, quhilk       #
caused the 
hors to leape a verey brode stanke; by quhilk meines he         #
escaipit, and 
gat away frome all ye rest of the horses. 
   The 27 day of Januarii, Mathew Steuarte Earle of Lennox, ves 
proclaimit Regent, and ye Earle of Mortone hes Lieutenant.      #
This Mathew
Earle of Lennox, halding ane Parliament at Striveling, quher    #
the 
zoung King wes present, he made ane oratione to the haill       #
nobility, being
sitting in ye Parliament. Ye chyld King looking upward to ye 
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roofe of the hous, he saw ane holl throughe the sclaitting; he  #
said, I 
think ther is ane holl in this Parliament; sua that shortly     #
therafter hes 
Maiestie's vords came true. 
   The first of Apryll, Dumbartane castell voune by the said    #
Regent 
and hes armies. Hes chieffe commanders wer, Thomas Craufurd,    #
and 
Dauid Home. 
   Betwix ye Regent and ye Queine's factione, the first of      #
Maii, ves 
Lusilaw foughten. 
   The 14 of Maii, ane Parliament haldin in the Canongaitt,     #
in Villiam 
Cocker's hous neir S=t= Johne's crosse, by the King's folks:    #
Also at ye 
same tyme, ane Parliament hald in the tolbuith of Edinburghe.   #
Ther 
wes maney forfaulted at both ye Parliaments. 
   The 16 day of Junii, ane skirmish betwix ye Earll of Mortone #
upone
ye Kinges pairt, quho came out of Leith, and the Earll of       #
Huntley, 
vith the Hamiltons, quha keiped Edinburghe, one the uther       #
syde. At 
ye same tyme, quhen the tuo armies wer standing upone ye        #
fieldes, the 
Earle of Mortone standing at ye Halkhill, the Hamiltones,       #
Homes, &c. 
standing at ye Quarrell Holes, ther wes ane English             #
embassadour quho 
traiuelled betwixt them, to haue gotten them  stayed from       #
batell; bot 
they being of contrarey opinions, vold not be stayed from ye    #
batell. 
In ye end, they ioyned both togider; sua that the Earll of      #
Mortone pute 
the Queines folk backe sua far, yat they wer forced             #
dishonourable to 
flee, and, in ther flight, maney of Huntley and Hamiltones men  #
ver 
slaine and hurte. Amongst ye chieffe men yat ver slaine of ye   #
Hamiltons,
wes Gauine Hamilton and 3 or four uther captains, vith numbers  #
of 
comon shouldiours; and ye Lord Home ves taken prisoner. 
   In the moneth of Auguste 1571, about the tyme of the riding  #
of 
the Parliament, ther came to Striveling, or day light, befor    #
euer the 
Regent, nobility, or toune of Striveling vist or trew, the      #
Erle of Huntly
the Quein's lieutenant, Claude Hamiltone, vith the lairds of    #
Buccleugh
and Farniherst; and by day brake wer going throughe the 
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toune, crying, God and ye Queine; sua that the King's peopell,  #
vith 
ye Regent and nobilities and ye shouldiours, raise in such a    #
steir, yat 
they could not vine togider, because the streits ves full of    #
enimies; and 
quher they could find aney of the Regent's peopell, vithout     #
mercey they 
killed them. In the end, ye Regent being taken by the laird of  #
Buccleugh
prisoner, ane unhappy fellow lifted upe his jack taill, and     #
shot 
him through ye body, he being sitting behind Buccleugh one hes  #
hors 
back; and immediatly the Earll of Mar wes proclaimed Regent. 
   The last of Julay 1572, the toune of Edinburgh ves randred   #
to ye 
King and his Regent, quha placed ther sex companies of old      #
shouldiours
for keiping of the same in tyme coming. 
   Upon the 24 day of Aguste, ves yat inhumane, bloudy, and     #
cruell 
massacker at Pareis in France, quherin ye noble Admirall wes    #
slaine, 
at ye mariage of ye King of Nauar vith ye King of France hes    #
sister. 
At this horrible murthering of trew Christians, it wes said     #
yat ye streitts
of Pareis rane bloud a quhole day and night, which, if be       #
true, it is a 
horror for all posterity of the bloudy dangers and hellish      #
inhumanity.
   Also at this tyme, ye Duck of Northfolk and ye Earle of      #
Northumberland,
wer both beheadit in Ingland for treasone. 
   The 28 of October, ye Regent the Earle of Mar depairted out  #
of 
Scotland.
   The 24 day of Nouember, James Douglas Earle of Mortone,      #
quha 
wes the King's lieutenant, wes chosen, and solemnly proclaimed  #
Regent,
in place of Johne Erskine Earle of Mar, quha had laitly left    #
the 
countrey.
   In the first of Januarii, the castell of Edinburghe wes      #
beseidget. 
   Upone the 2 day of Maii, the Englisch cannone, vich ves      #
sent by 
Queine Elizabeth for ye aide and helpe of ye King and hes       #
Regent, in 
number 20 grate peices, began to shoute at ye castell of        #
Edinburghe, 
being steillit [\Quas. Steittit, or stated.\] at foure several  #
places, viz. 5 at Egers hous in the Castell 
Hill, 5 at the Grayfriar church zaird, 5 at Scotts land neir ye #
West 
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   Porte, and uther 5 bezond the North Loche: they shote so     #
hard continually,
yat ye 2=d= day they had beitt doune quholly 3 touers. The 
laird of Grainge, called Kircaldy of surname, quho wes          #
capitaine therof,
vold not giue over, bot shote at them continually, both vith    #
grate 
shote and small; so yat ther wes a verey grate slaughter        #
amongst the 
English canoniers, sundries of them having ther legges and      #
armes torne 
from ther bodies in the aire by the viholence of the grate      #
shote. At 
last, the Regent continuing his seidge so closse and hard, the  #
capitaine 
being forced by the defendants for laick of victualls, randret  #
ye same, 
after a grate maney of them ver slaine. The castell wes thus    #
randred. 
to ye King and hes Regent the Earle of Mortone, the 29 of Maii  #
in this 
zeir 1573, quha continued Regent, and keipt ye cuntrey in       #
grate justice 
and peace all ye tyme of hes government.
   The 3 day of Aguste, the laird of Grange, surnamed           #
Kircaldy, quho 
wes capitane of the castell of Edinburghe, ves hangit at ye     #
crosse of the 
said toune, for keiping of the said castell against ye King     #
and hes 
Regent.
   Ane man named Black Ormistoune, wes hangit at ye crosse of   #
Edinburghe
for being present at ye murther of King Henrey.
   The 10 day of Marche, the King, vith hes nobility, deprived  #
the 
Earle of Mortone frome hes Regency, and tooke the government    #
upone
himself; and ther wer 16 counsellors chosen to sitt vith his    #
Maiestie 
in the tolbuith of Edinburghe. 
   [\The xxvi day of Apryll\] , the Earle of Mortone and the    #
Earle of Mar, 
vith ther freinds, surprysed ye castell of Striveling, to have  #
had out ye 
King, quho wes haldin in by ye capitane; at wich surprys ye     #
capitaine's
sone wes slaine.
   The 18 day of Aguste, ye Lordis of ye King's secret          #
counseill made 
proclamatione at the crosse of Edinburghe, yat all hes          #
Maiestie's subiects
yat wes of age betwix 16 and 60, should be ready to pas forvard
with them to relive hes Ma=tie= out of Striveling; or           #
utherwayes, if aney
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man vald not goe, to be repute partackers in the contrair.      #
The Lords 
passing forward to ye forsaid effecte, ther wes a batell sett   #
at Falkirk, 
both the parties being in the fields. Ther wes ane embassadour  #
of England,
and ane of France, quho went betwix them and aggreit both ye 
parties. At that time, the motto one the ensigns one the        #
King's syde 
wes, Capitane I am, Libertie I crave, Our lyves sall we loss,   #
Or yat we 
sall have.
   The 10 of Maii, the castell of Hamiltone wes castin doune. 
   Esme Steuarte Lord Obigney, landit at Leithe ye 8 of         #
September, 
quha wes created Duck of Lennox therafter. 
   Upone ye first day of Januarii, ye Earll of Mortone wes      #
putt in varde 
in ye castell of Edinburghe for conceilling the King's          #
murther, and zit 
neuir consentit to it, bot fled from place quhen he heard word 
it wes to be done, for feir yat they quho wes upone the         #
conspiracey,
viz. the Queine and the Earl of Bothuell, should urge him to    #
subscryue 
to ye same; notwithstanding yat he had faughten maney tymes in  #
perseuing
for the murther, these yat had consentit to it, and acted ye    #
same, 
zit he wes beheidit for conceiling of it. And in this moneth,   #
ye 
said Earl of Mortone ves takin out of ye castell of Edinburgh,  #
and 
convoyet to ye castell of Dumbartane. 
   Upone the 9 Maii in this zeir, the Erle of Mortone ves       #
brought 
out of Dumbartane castell to Edinburghe, and being accusit for  #
committing
ye King's murther, ves convicte be ane assyze; and one the 
second day of ye moneth of Junii therafter, wes beheidit at     #
ye crosse of 
Edinburghe. 
   The 23 of Aguste, the King's Maiestie being in the place of  #
Ruthven,
he wes presumptuously holden in ye place by the Lord therof     #
against
his vill, quhill the said Lord Ruthven, and hes complices,      #
caused, 
hes Ma=tie= to expell the Duck of Lennox, and banische him out  #
of ye 
realme, quha at yat same tyme vent to France. This ves a verey  #
grate 
presumptione in a subiecte to hes Prince.
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   Upone ye 24 of December, the Duck of Lennox entred in        #
Beruick 
to goe through England to France; and being arrived in France,  #
therafter 
tooke seiknes, and departed this mortall lyffe, 5 Junii 1583. 
   The 18 of Apryll, ye Earles of Angus, Mar, and ye Master of  #
Glamis,
vith some kirkmen and ther complices, quho had beine exyled, 
came home and vent to Striveling, they being all of ane         #
factione, and 
tooke in the toune and castell, and bult forts, sua yat no man  #
could travell
or pas ye river of Forth, for ye bridge ves stoppit. 
   Upone the 27 of Apryll, ye King and the Earlls of Craufurd   #
and 
   Arrane, vith divers of ye new maid Lordis and courtiers,     #
brought frome 
Edinburghe 3 regiments of shouldiours, and vent to Striveling,  #
quha 
looked yat ye said toune and castell should haue beine haldin   #
against hes 
Ma=tie=; bot quhen he came, they yat ver vithin fled, sua yat   #
hes Maiestie 
entred and tooke ye toune and castell vithout stroke of suord;  #
and hes 
Maiestie lodgit this night in the castell. 
   The 4 day of Maii, William Earle of Gowrie ves beheidet in   #
Striveling 
after he ves convicte, for presuming to detein his Maiestie     #
prisoner 
in his awin hous of Ruthven, the 23 of Auguste 1582; and ther   #
ves 
execute vith him Archibald Douglas beheadit, and M=r= Johne     #
Forbes 
hanget. This executione ves done ye forsaid day betwix 8 and 9  #
houres 
at night. 
   The 8 day of Aguste, the castell of Edinburghe ves givin     #
in keiping
to James Stewarte, Earl of Arrane, and he made capitane         #
therof. 
   Upon the 4 day of Maii, ye pestilence begune in Edinburghe,  #
and 
ves first knawin to be in Symeon Marcerbank's hous; quhilk      #
pest continued
till Januarii therafter: the haill peipell quhilk wer abill to  #
flee,
fled out of ye toune; nevirtheles, ther dyed of peipell wich    #
ver not abill
to flee, 14 hundreth and some odd.
   Upone the 1 of Nouember,ye King's Maiestie being in          #
Striveling, 
the nobilitie quho ver exyled, viz. Angus, Hamiltone, Mar,      #
Bothuell,
Glamis, came to Striveling vith ther haill forces, thinking     #
they had beine 
longe exyled fra hes Maiestie's presence, and yat by the        #
counsell of new 
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come courtiers, desperatly surprysit ye of Striveling, and      #
vane ye 
castell, and ver receivit in favour with hes Maiestie; many     #
wer fled 
from ye King, bot ye Lords remainet lyk loyall and trew         #
subiects, bot 
not veill to them quho wer the contrivers and causers of the    #
exyle. 
   Upone the 13 of Maii, the King being in Holyruidhous,        #
convenit ye 
haill lords and noblemen yat had feid; and ther, in the palace  #
of Holyruidhous, 
he caused ye haill noblemen yat had deidly feid at uthers, to 
aggre togidder; and after they had shoken hands togidder, and   #
drunken
ane to ane uther, for confirming of ye said aggrement and       #
freindschipe, 
and also, yat the haill cuntrey might the better understand     #
yat it wes 
hes Maiestie's vorke, caused them to come from ye palace of     #
Holyruidhous,
euery one in uthers hands, and hes Maiestie vith them, to ye 
crosse of Edinburghe, quher ye city made them a verey sumptous  #
banquett;
at quhilk tyme, ther wes much ioy and solemnity, with mutuall 
saluations of good vill one to ane uther; hes Maiestie          #
drinking peace 
and happines to them all, yat ye lyke ves nevir befoir sein in  #
Edinburghe.
   The 24 of Maii, the Earlls of Huntly, Craufurd & Bothuell,   #
ver 
accusit upone treasone for insurrectione against the King's     #
Maiestie;
bot ther ves no such thing in ther heids at yat tyme.
   The 30 day of Julii, S=r= Villiame Steuarte ves slaine in    #
the Black friar 
vynde be the Earl of Bothuell. The cause he slew him for wes,   #
yat upone
a tyme befor, ye Earle and he being at vords, S=r= William bad  #
ye 
Earll kis his .... ; the Earl heiring yat base and despytful    #
ansuer, ther 
made a voue to God, yat he should kis hes .... to hes no grate  #
pleasour: 
sua therafter rancountering the said S=r= Villiam, in ye Black  #
friar vynde 
by chance, told him he vold now kis his .... , and vith yat     #
drew his 
suord; S=r= Villiam standing to hes defence, and hauing his     #
back at ye 
vall, ye Earle made a thruste at him vith his rapier, and       #
strake him in 
at the back and out at the belley, and killed him. 
   In this zeir of God 1588, Philipe, the King of Spaine, the 2 #
of that 
name, having an armado, vich wes maney zeirs in preparing,      #
came to 
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sea, and thinking to have landit one the vest pairts of         #
Scotland, and so 
past into England, ves of intentione to have subdewed both ye   #
kingdomes,
and to have destroyed both man, vyffe, and children; bot ye 
grate God of armies destroyed them vith stormey tempests, yat   #
verey
few of them escapet undrowned, but some few yat ver drivin in   #
upone 
the vesterne isles. This wes named by the Spaniards and ther    #
adherents,
ye Invincible Armado, and, for a tyme, put all this part of 
christendome in a steir. 
   The 18 of Junii, the Earll of Marishall wes sent ambassador  #
to Denmarke,
for ye King's marriage. 
   The 22 of October, the King's Maiestie tooke iorney by sea,  #
and 
loused from Leith about 10 houres at evin, and sailed to        #
Noruay.
   Upon the 23 of November, hes Maiestie ves mariet upone Anna  #
of 
Denmarke, in the toune of Upslo in Noruay. This vord came home  #
as 
certeinty to ye Duck of Lennox, and Earle of Bothuell, quho     #
wer lefte 
to governe the countrey in hes Maiestie's absence. The King's   #
Maiestie 
traviled togider vith his Queine, beiyng in vinter, frome       #
Denmarke, quher 
he remained till Maii therafter, in anno 1590.
   Upone the first day of Maii 1590, ye King's Maiestie and     #
Queine
landit at Leith from Danmarke. 
   The 7 of Maii, Anna of Denmark wes crouned Queine of         #
Scotland 
at Holyrudhous. 
   The 19 day of Maii, the Queine made her entrey in            #
Edinburghe,
vith grate triumphe and ioy, pageants being erected in every    #
place, adorned
vith all things beffitting: zoung boys, vith artificiall        #
winges, at 
her entrey, did flee touards her, and presented her tuo siluer  #
keyes of 
ye city. The castell shott of all her ordinance 5 several       #
tymes, and at 
night the toune ves putt full of bonefyres. 
   The 22 day of Junii, the Earle of Bothuell brak ward out     #
of ye 
castell of Edinburghe, quha had beine ther in prisone some 20   #
dayis 
befor, for alledgit vitchcraft, and consulting vith vitches,    #
especially vith 
ane Richard Grahame, to conspyre the King's death; and, upone   #
the 
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25 of Junii, ye said Earle Bothuell wes forfaulted, and         #
intimatione made 
therof by opin proclamatione at the crosse of Edinburghe. 
   The same 25 of Junii, Euphane M'Kalzen ves brunt for         #
vitchcrafte. 
   The 6 of September, ane proclamatione at ye crosse of        #
Edinburghe, 
yat ther should be four-pound pices made, new halfe marke       #
pices, and 
new 48 pices, for seruing of hes Maiesties leidges. 
   The 27 of September, the Earle of Bothuell made a steir in   #
the  
Abbay of Holyruidhous, quho came in over ye hous in ye south    #
syde of 
the palace, and the said Earle taking too grate presumptione,   #
he, with
hes complices, strake vith ane hammer at his Maiesties chalmer  #
dore, 
and, in the meine tyme, the haill noblemen and gentlemen of     #
hes Maiesties 
hous raise, quho thought to have taken ye said Earll Bothuell   #
and 
hes complices: and the said Earle fled: zet he returned at the  #
south syde of 
the Abbay, quher the said Earle and hes complices slew hes      #
Maiesties 
maister stabler, named Villiam Shaw, and ane with him, named    #
M=r= 
Peiter Shaw. Bot the King's folks tooke 8 men of Bothuell's     #
factione, 
and, on the morrow, hangit them all vithout ane assyze, betwix  #
the 
girth crosse and ye Abbay gaite. 
   The 28 of December, ye King's Maiestie came to S=t= Geill's  #
kirk,
and ther made ane oratione anent the fray made by Bothuell,     #
and William 
Shaw's slauchter, hes maister stabler. 
   The 7 of Februarii, 
the Earle of Huntlie came to the hous of 
Dunibirsell in Fyffe, quher the Earll of Murray, vith a few     #
number, wes 
for the tyme, being his awen hous. The chieffe man yat ves      #
vith him, 
ves Dumbar, shriffe of Murray. The Earll of Huntley sett ye     #
said hous 
on fyre; the Earll of Murray being vithin, vist not quhither    #
to come 
out and be slaine, or be burned quicke: zet, after advysment,   #
this Dumbar
says to my Lord of Murray, I vill goe out at ye gaitt befor     #
your 
Lordshipe, and I am sure the peopell will chairge one me,       #
thinking me 
to be zour Lordshipe; sua it being mirke vnder night, ze sall   #
come out 
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after me, and look if yat ye can fend for zour self. In the     #
meine tyme, 
this Dumbar, tutor to ye shriffe of Murray, came furth, and     #
rane desperatly
among the Earle of Huntley's folks, and they all rane upone 
him, and presently slew him. During this broyle vith Dumbar,    #
the 
Earle of Murray came running out at ye gaitt of Dunibirsell,    #
quhilk
stands besyde ye sea, and ther satt him doune among ye rockes,  #
thinking
to have beine saue; bot unfortunattly the said Lord's           #
cnapscull tippet,
quherone ves a silk stringe, had taken fyre, vich betrayed him  #
to 
hes enimies in ye darknesse of ye night, himselue not knowing   #
the same;
they came doune one him on a suddaine, and ther most creuelly,  #
without
mercey, murthered him. 
   At quhilk tyme, one Capitane Johne Gordone takin upon the    #
12 
of Februarii; himselue wes heidit, and hes man wes hangit. 
   The last of Februarii, Richard Grahame wes brunt at ye       #
crosse of 
Edinburghe, for vitchcrafte and sorcerey.
   The 18 of Marche, ane proclamatione that ye zoung of Earle   #
of 
Murray should not perseu the Earll of Huntley, in respecte he   #
being 
vardit in ye Blacknes for ye same murder, he wes villing to     #
abyde ane 
trial, saying, yat he did nothing but by hes Maiesties          #
commission, and 
sua ves nather airt nor pairt of ye murther. 
   The 12 of Maii, the Earle of Bothuell and hes complices ver  #
denuncit
rebells, and summond to ye Parliament, quhilk ves to be haldin 
at Edinburghe ye 12 day of Julay, quherin the said Earll, with  #
all his 
quhole complices, wer all of them forfaulted.
   Upon ye 17 of Julay, the Earll of Bothuell, with hes         #
complices, 
made a fray at Falkland, hes Ma=tie= being ther, and therafter  #
hes Ma=tie=
came over the vater; and, upone ye 26 day of this same moneth,  #
hes 
Ma=tie= made an oratione concerning the same in ye grate kirke  #
of Edinburghe.
Immediatly after ye fray, Bothuell and hes men came over ye 
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vater, and ther ver 18 of them in Cader mure, and in other      #
pairts 
neir Cader mure, laying sleiping for vant of rest and           #
interteinment;
and immediatly after ther taking, they wer all brought to       #
Edinburghe,
and hangit. At ye same tyme, ye lairds of Nidrie and            #
Samuelstone, ver 
takin by  Johne Lord Hamiltone, and vardit in the castell of    #
Draphane, 
and came to Edinburghe, thinking to haue gottin grace to them   #
from 
hes Ma=tie=: he came doune to hes Ma=tie's= ludgings at the     #
Netherbow, and, 
going into M=r= Johne Laing's hous quher hes Maiestie ludgit,   #
the guard 
standing above ye port vith ther hagbutts, guns, and uther      #
veapons, the 
forsaid guard seeing my Lord Hamiltone, for the honour of his   #
Lordshipe,
shott ane volley at my Lord: ther wes ane man speiking to hes 
Lordshipe, shott through the head, ane uther by him shott       #
through the 
legge, and ane bullet strooke the lintell of ye gait iust       #
above my Lord's 
head quher he stoode, zet no more harme done; so yat by meir    #
accident
ye said Lord Hamiltone had most haue beine slaine, and not      #
through 
aney eiuil vill. The Lord Hamiltone seeing yat he could gett    #
no grace 
to ye said tuo gentlemen, he sent vord to hes bastard sone S=r= #
Johne, 
quho convoyett ye said tuo gentlemen away, and vent vith them   #
himselue
for ther more saftey. 
   The last of Julii, Francis Hay Earll of Errole, ves put in   #
vard in the 
castell of Edinburghe, for papistry. 
   The 18 of October, ye Earll of Angus vardit for papistry.
   The 7 of Nov=r=, hes Maiestie did receive again ye laird of  #
Nidrie in 
his fauor, and restorit him to his former dignity and estait.
   The 17 of Nouember, ye lady of Bothuell ves received into    #
his Maiesties 
fauor.
   The 18 of Nouember, ane proclamatione, yat no man receive    #
the 
Earle of Bothuell, and siclyke, yat all these yat had received  #
hes Maiesties 
fauor, quho had beine vith ye Earle of Bothuell, should not     #
come 
neir his Ma=tie= vithin 20 miles, under the paine of death.
   The 23 of Nouember, ane proclamatione, yat no man should     #
resett 
ye Countesse of Bothuell, giue her enterteinment, or to haue    #
aney commerce
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or society vith her in aney cais, quha had beine bot so laitly  #
received
in his Maiesties fauor befor, viz. one ye 17 day of ye same 
monethe. Behold ye changes of courte. 
   The last of Nouember, Johne Cohoune ves beheidit at ye       #
crosse of 
Edinburghe, for murthering of his awen brother the laird of     #
Lusse.
   The 2 of December, Capitane James Steuarte came to ye King,
quho had beine banished since ye road at Striveling befor,      #
which wes 
aboute ye I day of Nouember 1585.
   The 17 of December, ye ministers wer accusit by the King     #
for opin 
treasone in speiking agains hes Maiestie; zet hes goodness      #
past it ouer 
at yat tyme. 
   The last of December, M=r= George Ker ves brought to         #
Edinburghe
out of Calder, and putt in vard, for carrying of letters out of #
ye countrey
frome ye papists to ye King of Spaine.
   The first of Januarii, the Earll of Angus ves commandit to   #
vard in 
his awen lodgeing, and straitly keipit till ye morrow, and      #
then ves convoyit 
to ye castell of Edinburghe, for sending letters to Spaine to   #
ye 
Spanish King vith M=r= George Ker. 
   The 3 of Januarii, ane proclamatione to resist ye papists,   #
and all 
men to stand to ye religione presently professed vithin this    #
realme, in 
vich hes Maiestie hes beine brought up frome hes zouth: and     #
siclyk 
chairgeing all suspected papists to come and subscryue ane      #
band yat they 
sall not live as papists, bot in religione conforme to yat      #
presently professed. 
   The 8 day of Februarii, the Earlls of Huntley and Errole     #
ver denuncit
rebells, and put to ye horne, for not compeiring to subscryue   #
ye 
band concerning religione. 
   The 14 of Februar, S=r= Alex=r.= Stewart and M=r= Johne      #
Grahame slaine 
be S=r= James Sandilands at ye fitt of Leith wynd. 
   The 15 of Februar, the Earle of Angus brake ward out of ye   #
castell 
of Ed=r.= quha had beine in sen the first of Januar befor, for  #
sending l=res= 
to Spaine. 
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   The 17 of Februar, Dauid Grahame beheidit at the crosse for  #
opin 
treasone, callit Lord of Fentries. 
   The 15 of Marche, the King's Maiestie came fra ye northe,    #
q=r= he had 
beine sex veiks befor, and causit cast doune the palace of      #
Strabogie, and 
and place callit ye Slains, ane place callit the Newtoun, and   #
ane place 
for the tyme quhilk belongit to M=r= Walter Lyndesay, callit    #
the Brumhous,
vith ane hous of Sir Jo=n.= Ogilvy's, callit ye Craige. His     #
Maiestie 
had vith him 5 bandis of men of weir out of Ed=r= Capitanes     #
George Todridge,
James Inglis, James Williamson, and C. Dauidson and Geddes.
   The 20 of Marche, ane proclamatione at the crosse, charging  #
the 
Earles of Huntlie, Angus, Errole, w=t= diverse gentlemen and    #
Irishmen of 
the iyles, to compeir to the parliament for divers points of    #
treasone. 
   The 18 of Maii, ane suddaine shower of rain and haile, the   #
said day 
being Monday, the chapmans standis and stuillis came sweming    #
doune 
the streit of Ed=r.= lyke as they had beine selling doune the   #
vater. 
   The 19 of May, Katherine Muirhead brunt for vitchcrafte,     #
quha confest 
sundrie poynts y=r=of. 
   The 4 of Junii, the laird of Johnestoun brake ward out of    #
the castell 
of Edinburghe.
   The 20 of Junii, M=r= George Ker brake ward out of ye        #
castell. 
   The 21 of Julii, the Parliament haldin; the Earll of         #
Bothuell forfaulted,
and hes armes rivin at the crosse of Ed=r.= be the heraldis. 
   The 24 of Julii, at 8 hours in the morneing, the Earle of    #
Bothuell,
the laird of Spott, M=r= Villiam Leslie, and M=r= Jo=n=         #
Colvill, came into the 
King's chalmer weill provydit with pistol; this Earle and hes   #
complices, 
came not yis way provydit with pistollis and drauin suordis to  #
harme the 
King's Maiestie aney wayis, bot becaus he could not get         #
presence of his 
Maiestie, nor speich of him, for the Homes, quho wer courtiers  #
with 
the King, and enimies to the said Earle of Bothuell, sua they   #
came in 
into hes Maiestie's chalmer, resolving yameselues not to be     #
haldin back,
till they sould haue spoken vith him: and sua after yai came    #
in, hes 
Maiestie wes coming frae ye backstair and his breiks in hes     #
hand in ane 
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feir; howbeit he needit not. Ye forsaid Bothuell and hes        #
complices fell 
upone yair knies, and beggit mercie at hes Maiestie; and his    #
Maiestie 
being wyse, merciful, a noble Prince of grate pitie, not        #
desyrous of 
bluid, grantit yame mercie, and receivit yame in hes favour;    #
and at 4 
hours afternoone, causit proclame yame hes frie leidges; and    #
upone ye 
27 day, ye same proclamatione of ye Earll of Bothuell's peace   #
wes renewit
at ye crosse vith heralds and trumpettis sounding for ioy.
   The 10 of Aguste, ane new alteratione offerit againe. 
   The 20 of September, ye said Earle Bothuell chargit by ane   #
proclamatione 
at the crosse, yat he sould not come vithin 10 myles of ye 
King's Maiestie, under the paine of deathe. 
   The 11 of October, the King's Maiestie ryding to ane day of  #
law, 
the excommunicat Lordis mett him, q=m= he receavit in his       #
favor, viz. 
Huntlie, Errole, Angus, S=r= James Chissim, vith sundrie        #
uthers. 
   The last of October, ane conventione haldin at Leith, for    #
the same 
purpos concerneing Angus, Huntlie, and Errole, and yair         #
complices. 
   The 2 of November, ane proclamatione yat na man truble ye    #
said 
papist Lordis, bot to receive yame and interteine yame as his   #
faithful
and trew subiectes, as yai will be ansuerabill to him.
   The 7 of November, Smetoun hangit for braking of ward with   #
M=r= 
George Ker out of ye castell of Edin=r.= 
   The same 7 of Nouember, ane proclamatione yat na man sould   #
repair 
to the toune of Ed=r.= without leive grantit be his Maiestie;   #
quhilk 
proclamatione greived the toune of Ed=r.=, specially the        #
ministers. 
   The 27 of No=r.= ane proclamatione of the act of absolution  #
in fauors 
of the papist Lordis.
   The 7 of December, the Lord Maxwell slaine be the laird of   #
Johnestoun.
   The 11 of December, the Earle of Bothuell put to the horne;  #
quhilk 
day the said Earle Bothuell and Ker of Cessfurd met and faucht  #
tua 
for tua. 
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   The 27 of Dec=r.= the Erle of Bothuell, nor the laird of     #
Johnestoun, 
na man sould receive yame, nor give yame interteinment. 
   The 7 of Januar, the 4 penny plakis proclaimed: the 19 day   #
of the 
same, 4 penny plakis dischairgit. 
   The 22 of Januar, the act of absolutione quhilk wes maid,    #
null and 
to no effect. 
   The 4 of Februar, ane proclamatione for new cunzie, viz. 5   #
pund 
pices of gold, and 50 sh. pices of gold; and of silver, 10 sh.  #
pices, 5 sh.
30 penny pices, and 12 penny pices. 
   The 19 of Februar 1594, Prince Henrie wes borne, at the      #
pleasour 
of Almightie God, quhilk day befell on Tuysday. 
   The 13 of Marche, his M. came to M=r= Robert Bruises         #
preiching,
being Sonday, q=r= M=r= Ro=t= Bruis said to hes M. yat God wald #
steir up
ma Bothuells nor ane, yat wes ma enimies to him nor Boduell,    #
if he revengit 
not his and faught not Godis, quarrell and batells one the      #
papists, 
befoir he faucht or revenge hes awen particular. 
   The 3 of Apryll, the King being ludgit in Robert Gourlay's   #
ludging, 
he came to the sermone, and ther, in presence of the haill      #
peipell, he 
promest to revenge God's cause, and to banische all the         #
papists, and y=r= 
requystit the haill peiple to gang with him against Boduell,    #
quha wes in 
Leith for the tyme. The same day, the King's Maiestie rais and  #
the 
toune of Ed=r= in armes. The Earle of Bothuell, quha wes in     #
Leith, heiring
that his Maiestie wes coming doune, with the toune of Ed=r=, he #
rais 
with his fiue hunder hors, and rode up to the Halkhill besyde   #
Lesteric, 
and ther stood till he saw the King and the toune of Ed=r=      #
approching neir 
him. He drew hes companie away throw Duddingston. My Lord Home 
followit till the Wowmet, at qlk place, the Earle Bothuell      #
turnit, thinking 
to have a het at Home; bot Home fled, and he followit; zit be 
chance little bluid. The King's Maiestie flue himself, seeing   #
the said 
chaice. 
   Siclyke the King, upone the 5 day, raid out to have tane     #
Bothuell, 
bot gat him not. 
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   The 29 of Apryll, W=m= Hegie hangit for receiving the Earl   #
of 
Bothuell.
   The 17 May, my Lord Home maid hes repentance into ye new     #
kirk 
befor ye Assemblie upone hes knies. 
   The 8 of Junii, the Parliament haldin; at qlk tyme, the      #
Earles of 
Angus, Huntlie, Errole, M'Leane, Mackoneill, and Achindoune,    #
wer 
all forfaulted. 
   The 30 day of Aguste, ye Prince baptized and named Henrey    #
Frederic,
by the grace of God. 
   The 16 day of September, ane proclamatione yat nae man       #
resett nor 
interteine the Earle Bothuell.
   The 17 of September, Allan Orme hanget for interteining the  #
Earle 
of Bothuell. 
   The 24 of September, Johne Gibsone hanget, and James         #
Cochrane 
hanget, for enterteining the Earle of ye Earle of Bothuell. 
   The 15 of October, the Capitane of Blacknes hangit, for      #
receiving 
and interteining the Earle Bothuell.
   The 3 of October, the battel of Glenlivit foughtin betwix    #
the Earl 
   of Argyll, Generall for the King, agains the Earles of       #
Huntlie and 
Atholl, and ther associates. The chieffe, of not, yat wes       #
slaine one Huntlie
and Atholl's syde wer, ye laird of Gight, Assinlie, M=r=        #
William Gordone,
the Guidman Derth and hes sone. This Derth wes brother to 
Abergeldie. Thrie brethren of Tillachoudy, and ye zoung laird   #
of 
Drumdelgie.
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   The 4 of December, ane proclamatione charging all men not    #
to haue 
to doe w=t= the Earle Bothuell.
   The same 4 of December, Capitane Baillie hanget for          #
counterfetting 
the Great Seall agains the merchants. 
   The 13 of Januar, George Muir hangit for slaing of twa       #
ministers, 
viz. M=r= Dauid Blayth, and ane Aikman. 
   The 19 Januar, the zoung Earle of Montrois fought ane        #
combate w=t= 
S=r= James Sandilands at the Salt Trone of Ed=r.= thinking to   #
have revengit 
the slauchter of hes cusine M=r= Johne Grahame, quha wes y=r=   #
slaine with 
ane shot of ane pistol, and four of hes men slaine with         #
suords, viz. 
Johne Craufurd, Johne Grahame, George Dundass, and Alexander 
Boner. 
   The 14 of Februar, ane of the keipers of the wardes in the   #
castell of 
Ed=r.= hangit for letting the Earle of Angus out of ward. 
   The 18 of Februar, Hercules Stewart hangit, and ane Johne    #
Syme, 
for bearing companie and interteining his awen brother and the  #
Earle of 
Bothuell.
   The 23 of Februar, the Earle Bothuell excommunicate. 
   The 10 of Marche, ane horrible tempest of snaw, quhilk lay   #
upone 
the ground till the 14 of Apryll yrafter. 
   The 26 of Maii, Johne Gilchryst, Hendersone, and Huttoun,    #
all 
thre hangit for making of fals writtis, and pressing to         #
warifie the same. 
   The 11 of Junii, ane callit Cuming the Muncke, hangit for    #
making 
of fals writtis. 
   The 19 of Julii, James laird of Indermarchie, and his        #
servant, heidit,
as partakers of the murder of the Earle of Murray and Patrick   #
Dumbar, 
in Dunibirsell in Fyfe, quha wer slaine the 7 of Februar 1591. 
   The 14 of Aguste, Christian Johnestoun, ane widow in Ed=r.=  #
revest 
be Patrick Aikenhead. The toune wes put in ane grate fray be    #
the 
ringing of the commone bell. The said Christian wes follouit    #
and 
brocht back fra him, sua yat the said Patrick got no advantage  #
of her. 
   The 15 of September, Johne Macmorrane slaine be the shott    #
of ane 
pistole out of the schooll. This Johne Macmorrane being         #
baillie for the 
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tyme, the bairns of the  said gramar schooll came to the tounes #
counsell
conforme to yair zeirlie custome, to seek the priuiledge, quha  #
wes refusit;
upone the qlk, ther wes ane number of schollaris, being         #
gentelmens 
bairns, made ane mutinie, and came in the night and tooke the 
schooll, and prouydit yameselfis w=t= meit, drink, and          #
hagbutis, pistolet, 
and suord: they ranforcit the dores of the said schooll, sua    #
yat yai refusit 
to let in y=r= m=r.= nor nae uthir man, w=t=out they wer        #
grantit ther 
privilege, conforme, to y=r= wontit use. The Prouost and        #
Baillies and 
Counsell heiring tell of the same, they ordeinit John           #
Macmorrane baillie, 
to goe to the gramar schooll and take some order yrwt. The      #
said Johne,
with certein officers, went to the schooll, and requystit the   #
schollaris to 
opin the doreis: yai refusit. The said  baillie and officers    #
tooke ane geast 
and rane at the back dore with the geast. Ane schollar bad him  #
desist 
from dinging up the dore, utherways, he vouit to God, he wald   #
shute 
ane pair of bulletis throw hes heid. The said baillie thinking  #
he durst 
not shute, he, with his assisters, ran still w=t= the geast at  #
the said dore. 
Ther came ane schollar callit William Sinclair, sone to         #
William Sinclair 
chansler of Gatnes, and with ane pistolet shott out at ane      #
window, and 
shott the said baillie throw the heid, sua yat he diet. Pntlie  #
the haill 
tounesmen ran to the schooll, and tuik the said bairns and put  #
yame in 
the tolbuith: bot the haill bairns wer letten frie w=t=out      #
hurte done to 
yame for the same, w=t=in ane short tyme yairafter. 
   The [^BLANK^] day of September, the Ladie Bothuell receivit  #
in fauor w=t= 
the King in Glasgow. 
   The 4 of Oct=r=, S=r= Johne Maitland deceasit, being         #
chansler, and quha 
had bein chansler sen the Parliament haldin at Linlithgow in    #
December 
the zeir of God 1585.
   The 20 of October, Gilbert Lauder  slaine in Linlithgow be   #
the 
Cranstouns. 
   The 22 of Nov=r=, 4 heralds sitting drinking, tua of yame    #
fell in words, 
viz. Johne Purdie and Johne Gladstanis. The said Johne          #
Gladstanis 
stikit Johne Purdie at the table; and the said Gladstanis       #
being apprehendit, 
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he wes beheidit upone the 25 day of the same moneth of Nov=r=, 
for the same slaughter. 
   The 3 of Dec=r=, the Ladie Bothuell banishit zet anes        #
againe. Bot 
w=t=in sex dayis yrafter, the said Ladie purchest ane letter of #
peace sub=t= 
be his awen Maiestie's hand. 
   In this pnt zeir of God, the dearthe of victuall increased,  #
and yair 
wes sic famine in yis countrie, the lyk wes nevir heard tell    #
of in aney 
aidge befoir, nor neuir red of since the world wes maid, as ze  #
sall heir: 
In yis moneth of October and Nouember, the quhyt and malt at    #
ten lib:
the boll; in Marche yrafter, the ait maill 10 lib: the boll,    #
the humbell 
corne 7 lib: the boll. 
   In the moneth of Maij, the ait maill 20 lib: the boll in     #
Galloway. 
At this tyme, ther came victuall out of uthir partis, in sic    #
aboundans, 
that betwixt the first of Julii and the 10 of August, thair     #
came into 
Leith thre scoir and sex shippes laden w=t= victuall;           #
nevirtheless, the ry 
gave 10 pund 10 sh: and XI the boll. The 2 of September, the    #
ry came 
down and wes sauld for 7 lib: the boll, and new ait maill for   #
vii sh: the 
peck, and 7 sh: and 6d: the peck. The 29 of Oct=r=, the ait     #
maill came 
up again at 10 sh: the peck. The 15 of Julii, the ait maill at  #
13 sh: and 
4d: the peck; the pease maill at XI - the peck. 
   In this zeir, Clement Oor, and Robert Lumsden his            #
grandsone, 
bought beforhand from the Earle Marishall the beir mail         #
ourhead for 
33 sh: and 4d: the boll. 
   In the zeir of God 1597, sic incres of sawing, that the lyk  #
hes not 
bein hard of befoir. Ane man of Libberton, callit Douglas, had  #
of 
ten peckis of beir sawen 31 thrieff, and everie thrieff had     #
ane boll of 
beir and ane peck.
   Here we come to our former purpos againe in the zeir 1596.
   Ane proclamatione the 5 of Januarii, declaring perpetuall    #
peace betwix
Scotland and England, and yat nane of the borderers invaid ane 
anuther, under the paine of death. Siclyke at yis tyme, the     #
generall 
musters proclaimed to be haldin the 2 of Februar nixt. 
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   The 12 of Januar, ane proclamatione, declaring he Ma: hes    #
appointed 
aught Lordis for heiring of the checker comptis, and taking     #
order 
with the enormities and disorders in yis countrie. These        #
Lordis, all 
callit Octavians, viz. Alex=r= Seytoun of Pluscartie, Walter    #
Stewart of 
Blantyre, M=r= Johne Lindesay, M=r= Thomas Hamilton, M=r= James #
Elphinston,
M=r= Johne Skeine, M=r= James Craigie of Killatie, and M=r=     #
Peiter 
Zoung of Seytoun. 
   The 2 of Marche, [^BLANK^] Campbell of Arkinles wes tane for #
the 
slaughter of Campbell laird of Cadder; and one the 4 day, he    #
tholit 
ane assyze, and continuit day till day, till the 8 of Apryll,   #
he wes conveyit
to the Blacknes till ward, and at length he wes maid frie. 
   The 15 of March 1596, the King's M: made ane orisone befor   #
the 
Generall Assemblie, w=t= maney guid promises and conditionis. I #
pray 
God he may keip yame, be content to receive admonitionis, and   #
to be 
collectit himself and his haill houshold, and to lay aside hes  #
awen authority
royall, and to be as ane brother among yame, and to see all     #
the 
kirks in this country weill plantit with ministers. Ther are    #
in Scotland 
900 kirks, of the quhilk ther are 400 without ministers or      #
readers. 
   The 6 of Apryll, 3 men hangit, viz. Patrick Douglas, Patrick
Boyd, and ane Syme. This Douglas wes a thieff or murderer, and 
brunt; and had continuit long unsuspected to be our man. 
   The same 6 of Apryll 1596, the laird of Buccleugh past to    #
the castell 
of Carleill w=t= 70 men, and tuik out Will: Kynmonth out of the #
said 
castell: the said Will: lyand in ironis w=t=in the irone zett.  #
Yis he did 
with shouting and crying, and sound of trumpet, puttand the     #
said toune 
and countrie in sic ane fray, that the lyk of sic ane           #
wassaledge wes nevir 
done since the memorie of man, no in Wallace dayis. 
   The 7 of Apryll, the toune of Calles in France won by the    #
Spaniards, 
be the treasone of the merchantis w=t=in the said toune of      #
Calles. 
   The 14 of Apryll, M=r= William Schaw wes stricken throw the  #
bodie 
w=t= ane rapier, be Francis Moubray, sone to the laird of       #
Barnbougle. 
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   The last of Maii, ane proclamatione, chargeing all men       #
betwixt 60 
and 16 to be in readines betwixt that and the first day of      #
August, to pas 
w=t= the King to the Iyles. 
   Thair wes, betwixt the 1 of July and the VI of Aguste, to    #
the number 
of 66 schippes lost in Leith haven w=t= victuall. 
   The 12 of Julii, Colonell Stewart made be opin               #
proclamatione Lieutenant,
to pas to the Iylis.
   In this moneth of Julii, great troubill fell out betwix      #
Scottis and 
Inglishmen on the Border, nochtheles of the charge giuen in     #
the contrair
in the moneth of Januar befoir. 
   The 15 of Julii, 7 men hangit for reif, spulzie, and         #
murder. 
   The 13 of Aguste, the Earles of Huntlie and Angus receivit   #
be the 
King in Falkland. 
   The 19 of August 1596, the Quein's M: deliuered of ane       #
woman 
child, callit Elizabeth.
   The 18 of August, Colonell Stewart tuik iourney out of Ed=r= #
to Glasgow,
frae yat to goe to the Iylis. He bad w=t= him 3 companies of    #
men 
of weir.
   The 8 of September, thrie zoung men challengit for braking   #
of M=r= 
Johne Laing's hous. Some men sayis they did it mor for inuy     #
than povertie;
for they wer craftsmen. Y=r= names wer, Robert Horne, Dauid 
Hislope, and Thomas Porteuous. They wer hangit at the crosse    #
on the 
15 of September w=t= grate lament. 
   The 20 day of September or y=r=by, the Earle of Errole,      #
Francis Hay, 
came hame to Scotland, and landit at Stanehiue. 
   At this tyme, ane conventione haldin at Dumfermling, for     #
the Papist
Lordis, bot continuit to the 28 of Nouember, to be haldin at    #
Ed=r=.
   The 2 of Nouember, the Princes came out of Dumfermling to    #
the 
Abbay of Holyruidhous. 
   The 18 of Nouember, M=r= David Black minister accusit befoir #
the 
King and secret counsell. 
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   The 21 of November, M=r= Peiter Galloway commandit out of    #
the 
pulpit, and out of the chapell royall in the Abbay. 
   The 24 of Nouember, the Papist Lordis commandit to pas out   #
of 
the countrie, or else to mak satisfaction to the Kirke. 
   The 27 day of November, ane proclamatione, discharging all   #
conventions 
or convocationes of the King's leidges, w=t=out hes Maiesties   #
libertie. 
   Ane uther proclamatione, charging David Black, minister at   #
S=t= Androis,
to compeir befor the secret counsell the last day of No=r=. for #
matters 
of treasone. 
   The 28 day of No=r=. the Princes bapteisit, callit Elizabeth #
be the 
grace of God, first dochter to hes Maiestie.
   The 8 of December, the Ladie Huntley came to Ed=r=. 
   The 10 of December, ane proclamatione discharging the        #
former 
proclamatione qlk wes made the 27 of No=r=. concerning the      #
convention 
of the ministers. 
   The 13 of December, commanding the ministers of aney shyre   #
or 
parochin to pas out of the toune within 48 hours, under the     #
paine of 
treasone. 
   The 17 day of December 1596, being Fryday, hes Maiestie      #
being in 
the tolbuith sitting in session, and ane convention of          #
ministers being in 
the new kirke, and some noblemen being conveinit w=t= yame, as  #
in special 
Blantyre and Lyndesay, ther came in some divilish officious     #
persone, 
and said that the ministers wer coming to take hes lyfe; upone  #
the qlk,
the tolbuith dores wer shut and steiket; and yair araise sick   #
ane crying, 
God and the King, uther some crying, God and the Kirk, that     #
the haill
commons of Ed=r=. raise in armes, and knew not quherfor         #
allways. Yair 
wes ane honest man, quha wes deiken of deikens, hes name wes    #
Johne 
Watt, smythe. This Johne Watt raisit the haill craftis in       #
armes, and 
came to the tolbuith, quher the entrie is to the checker hous,  #
and yair 
cryed for a sight of hes Maiestie, or ellis he sould ding up    #
the zet w=t= 
foir hammers; sua that nevir ane w=t=in the tolbuith sould come #
out w=t= 
yair lyfe. At length, hes M: lookit our the window, and spake   #
to the 
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commonis, quha offerit to die and liue with him; quhilk         #
commonis of 
Ed=r= offerit to die all in ane moment for hes M: weill fair:   #
sua hes M:
came doune after the tounesmen wer commandit of the gait, and   #
wes 
convoyit be the craftis men to the Abbay of Holyruidhous, q=r=  #
he stayit 
yat night; and, upone the morne, he rode out of the toune, and  #
sent 
back the chairges, as ze sall heir heirafter. This tumult bred  #
grate 
troubill betwixt his M: and the toune of Ed=r=. 
   The 18 of this same December, ane proclamatione              #
dischairging the 
session, commissaries, justices or sheriffs, to sit or doe      #
justice; and siclyke,
dischairging all maner of personis, barons or gentilmen, to     #
pas out 
of the toune w=t=in 6 houres, under the paine of horning; and   #
siclyke, 
calling the ministers seditious persones in the proclamatione. 
   The 20 day, ane chairge to the provost and balzies, to take  #
and apprehend 
M=r= Robert Bruce, M=r= William Watsone, M=r= Walter            #
M'Canquell,
M=r= James Balfour, and M=r= Michael Cranstoun, with uyrs,      #
coming 
to the number of ten, and put yame in ward in the castell of    #
Ed=r=:
As also, they wer chargit to compeir the King and counsell the 
23 in Linlithgow, to be accusit as seditious and reasoris of    #
tumultis, and 
convocating of his leidges; and the 25 day, the ministers put   #
to the 
horne with some tounesmen. 
   The 22 day of December, Stephin Brunfield slaine upone Sanct 
Leonardis Craigis, as apeirs be James Carmichael, second sone   #
to the 
laird of Carmichael.
   Upon the Sabbath day y=r= after, nae preiching in Ed=r=,     #
nather befoir 
noon nor afternoon, the lyk hes not bein sene befoir. 
   The 27 of December, four proclamations. The first, that nae  #
man 
resett nor intercommon w=t= the ministers, nor w=t= the burgess #
quha are 
put to the horne. The second, concerning M=r= David Black, and  #
hes accusations 
and answers; and yat, since hes committing in ward, he sent 
letters to make sedition. Thirdly, that the ministers sall      #
have no 
stipends.
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   The last day of December, the King came to the Abbay, and    #
pntlie 
command wes givin, by opin proclamatione, that on the  morne    #
the 
Earle of Mar sould keip the West Port, my Lord Seytoun the      #
Nether 
Bow, my Lord Livingstoun, Buccleugh, Cessfurd, and sundry       #
uthirs, 
to keip the Hiegate. Upone the morne at yis time, and befoir    #
yis day, 
yair wes ane grate rumour and word among the tounesmen, yat     #
the 
King's M: sould send in Will Kinmond the comone theiff, and so  #
maney
Southland men, as sould spulzie the toune of Ed=r=: Upone the 
qlk, the haill merchants tuik yair haill geir out of yair       #
buiths or chops, 
and transportit the same to the strongest hous that wes in ye   #
toune, and 
remained in ye said hous yair w=t= yame selfis, y=r= servants,  #
and looking for 
nothing bot yat yai sould haue bein all spulzeit. Siclyke the   #
haill craftsmen 
and comons conveinit themselfis, y=r= best guides, as it wer 10 #
or 12 
housholdis in ane, quhilk wes the strongest hous, and might be  #
best 
keipit from spulzeing or burneing, w=t= hagbut, pistolet, and   #
uther sic 
armour, as might best defend yameselfis: Judge, gentill         #
reider, giff 
this wes playing. Ther noblemen and gentilmen, keipers of the   #
portis 
and Hie Gaitt, being sett at the places foirsaid, with pike     #
and speir and 
uyr armour, stude keiping the foirsaid places appointit, till   #
hes Maiestie 
came to S=t= Geilles kirk, M=r= David Lindesay making the       #
sermone. Hes 
M: made an orisone or harang, concerning the sedition of the    #
seditious 
ministers, or as it pleased him to terme yame. 
   The same day, being the 1 of Januar, David Edmonston of      #
the 
Wowmit slaine be Thomas Christoun be the shott of ane gun. The 
session in Perth, and the provost and the bailzies, summond to  #
byde
tryal.
   The 10 of Januar, 3 proclamations at the crosse. The first,  #
yat the 
Session sould sit down in Perthe the 1 of Februarii: The 2.     #
chairging 
the provost and balzies and counsell, and deikens of craftis,   #
to enter in 
ward in Perthe the same first of Februar, ther to byde tryal    #
for the 
fault commitit be yame the 17 of December: The 3. yat giff the  #
ministers
speik aney thing of the King or counsell, they sall be tane     #
out of 
the pulpit and put in prisone, till yai be punishit; or ellis   #
the heirers to 
incur the paine of lyfe, landis and geir. 
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   The 4 of Februar, ane proclamation, that the Session sould   #
sit in 
Leith, and to begin on Monday the 7 day. 
   The 6 of Februar, being Sunday, M=r= David Lyndesay made ane 
sermone befoirnoone, and afternoone ane uther to the comons of  #
Edinburghe 
in the grate kirk.
   The 5 of March, sundrie proclamations concerning the         #
ministers 
and the papistis, and of the personis appoyntit to traite w=t=  #
the Earle of 
Huntlie concerning Dunibirsell; and the ministers inhibit not   #
to excommunicate 
w=t=out the advyse of the General Assemblie, and yat yai speik 
not of the King, nor court, or secret counsell with diverse     #
injunctions:
and nae man to troubill the Earle of Huntlie, nor nane of his. 
   The 10 of March, the haill counsell and committie of Ed=r=,  #
wer denuncit 
rebells, and put to the horne, because William Mould compeirit 
not in Perth, w=t= the rest of the commissioners. Tua men slew  #
another,
the 11 of Marche. Williame Gluffer, and James Hepburne, slew    #
ane 
anuther at the single combat on the hill callit Sanct           #
Leonardis Craigis: 
the said tua ver buriet on the morne y=r=after. 
   The 15 of Marche, ane singill combat foughtin betwixt Adam 
Bruntfield and James Carmichael. The said Adam Bruntfield       #
challengit 
James Carmichael for murthering of his umqle brother Stephin    #
Bruntfield,
Capitane of Tantallon. The said Adam purchasit ane licence of 
hes M: and faucht the said James on Barnbougle Links, befor     #
fyve 
thousand gentilmen; and the said Adam being bot ane zoung man,  #
and 
of a mein stature, slew the said James Carmichael, he being as  #
abill a 
lyke man as wes living. 
   The 18 of Marche 1597, M=r= William Leslie hurt in the       #
Canongaitt 
be three brether of the Frenches. 
   The 22 of Marche, the toune of Ed=r= relaxit fra the horne,  #
and receivit 
into the King's favour againe, and the Session ordainit to sit  #
doune 
in Ed=r= the 15 of May yrafter. 
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   The 23 of Marche, the King drank in the counsell hous w=t=   #
ye baillies,
counsell and deikens. The said baillies and counsall convoyit   #
hes 
M: to the West Port therafter. In the mein tyme of yis          #
drinking in the 
counsell hous, the bells rang in the steipell for ioy of yair   #
agrement:
the trumpetis sounded, and drums and quhistles playit w=t=      #
maney uther 
instruments of musicke, as might be playit one; and the toune   #
of Ed=r=, 
for the tumult raising the 17 of December befoir, wer ordainit  #
to pay to 
hes Maiestie threttie thousand merks Scottis. 
   The 13 of Apryll, Patrick Cuninghame heidit for slaughter    #
of George 
Preston of Haltries. This same Patrick confessit that he slew   #
the laird 
of Lag, vith ane shott out of hes awen hand. 
   The 20 of Apryll, Serlie Bui came to ye toune, ane hyland    #
man. 
   The 22 day, the ministers relasit simpliciter frae the       #
process of horning,
vizt. Messrs Robert Bruce, James Balfour, William Watsone, and 
Walter M'Canquell.
   The 4 day of Maii, James M'Oneill, alias Serlie Bui. The 7   #
day 
of Maii he went homeward, and, for honour of his bonyalla, the  #
canons 
shott out of the castell of Edinburghe.
   The 23 day of Maii, ther wer sex proclamations at the        #
crosse of 
Ed=r=. 1. The gold and silver cryed doune. 2. That no wares be  #
brought 
out of England. 3. That the wool be not transported. 4. That 2  #
penny 
peices of copper be cunzied. 5. Yat ther be a new custome       #
takin of 
all goods either importit or exportit. 6. Anent ye order of     #
home bringing
of bulzeon to the cunzie hous by the merchants.
   The 25 day of Maii, ane proclamatione, heightening the       #
custome to 
3od of every pund, vich extends to the 8 penny, and especially  #
of English 
goodes. 
   The 6 of Junii, ane proclamatione, yat no man take upone     #
hand to 
give out money aney deirer, nor ten for the hundreth, or        #
victuall according
therto,under ye paine of confiscatione of all ther goodes, and 
punishing of ther bodies as usurers, yat does in the contrarey.
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   The 18, Archibald Wauchope of Nidrie slaine be the laird of  #
Edmonstoun
in Scletter's close. 
   The 19 day, Sybella Dewar spous to Johne Baillie, drounit    #
herself 
in the Northe Loche. 
   The 23 of Junii, ane proclamatione for taking of the cunzie  #
hous. 
   The 13 of Julii, ane feight or combat betwixt the laird of   #
Drumlanrick
and the laird of Johnestoun and y=r= assisters. Johnestoun had 
ane servant slaine, callit Adam Andersone. 
   The 21 and 22 dayis of Julii, proclamations discharging the  #
haill 
office men of the cunzie hous, as the master, warden, sayer,    #
sinker, 
and prenters. 
   The 24 of Julii, the King gave the ministers leive to        #
preich. 
   The 27 of Julii, George Heriot maid the Quein's goldsmythe,  #
and 
intimat at the crosse be opin proclamatione and sound of        #
trumpet; and 
ane Clei the Frencheman dischairgit, quha wes the Quein's       #
goldsmythe 
befor. 
   The first of August, the Earll of Angus relaxit fra the      #
horne and 
excomunication. 
   The 4 of August, the Earles of Angus, Huntley, Errole, wer   #
relasit 
fra the horne w=t= ane herald and 6 trumpettis. 
   The 6 of Auguste, the pest began in Leith. 
   The 15 of Auguste, Patrick Schilich hangit for being at the  #
raid of 
Leith with the Earle of Bothuell, qlk wes the thrid of Apryll   #
1594.
   The 7 of October, the laird of Buccleugh deliverit in        #
Ingland. 
   The day [^BLANK^] of November, the Earle of Cassilis mariet  #
upone 
Fleeming, quho wes Chansler Maitland's wyfe befoir. 
   The 6 December, the Earles of Huntlie and Errole came to     #
Edinburghe.
   The 7 day of December, being the first day of the            #
Parliament, 
Archd: Jarden, servitor and mr: stabler to the Earle of Angus,  #
wes 
slaine negligently be Andro Stalker, goldsmythe at Nidrie's     #
wynd 
heid. The said Andro wes apprehendit and put in prisone. The    #
zoung 
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men of the toune being all in armes, as yai use to be in the    #
tyme of the 
Parliament, yai came to his M: and desyrit grace for the zoung  #
man 
quha had done ane reckles deid. The King's M: desyrit them to   #
goe to 
my Lord of Angus the man's mr: and satisfie and pacifie hes     #
wrath, and 
he sould be contentit to grant hes lyfe. James Williamsone      #
being capitane 
to the zoung men, came to my Lord of Angus, offerit him yair 
manreid to be readie to serue him giff he had to do: upone the  #
qlk, he 
grantit yame hes lyfe, and sua the said Andro wes releisit out  #
of prisone 
upon the reid-day at evin. 
   The 12 of December, the Earlis of Angus, Huntlie, and        #
Erroll, restorit,
and bure the honours frome the Parliament house to the palais   #
of 
Holyrudhous.
   The 19 of December, Home of Wedderburne and Thomas Fowlis, 
made thesaurer, comptroller, and collector. 
   The 16 of Januar, Thomas Fowlis conceivit seiknes. 
   The 8 of Februar, Johne Windiezetts, Johne Moscraip,         #
Alexander 
Lowrie, Johne Halliday, and cap=t=, James Lowrie, all hangit at #
the crosse 
for counterfeiting fals wreittis, quhilk wes grate pitie to     #
sie. 
   The 17 of Februar, the King being in the grate kirk of       #
Edinburghe 
at the sermone, M=r= Patrick Gallaway red out ane tikit, the    #
forme or 
maner of the devisione of the four kirkis of Ed=r= ane quarter  #
of the 
toune to everie kirke. 
   The said 17 of Februar, betwix 9 and 10 in the morneing,     #
ane grate 
darknes be reasone of eclipes, sic ane darknes hes not beine    #
sene, for 
the haill pipell w=t=in Ed=r:= yat knew not quhat it wes,       #
thought yat it had 
bene Duimsday. Merchantis and utheris yat wer ignorant,         #
steikit ther 
buith doris and ran to the kirke to pray, as gif it had bene    #
the last day. 
   The 20 day of Februar, Thomas Dobie drounit himself in the   #
Quarrel 
holes besyde the Abbay, and upone the morne, he wes harlit      #
throw 
the toune backward, and therafter hangit on the gallows. 
   The 12 of Marche, the convention or assemblie in Dundie. 
   The 14 of Marche, the Quein's brother came to Ed=r:= Hes     #
styll, the 
Duck of Holsten.
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   The 18 of Apryll, Ed=r= wes devydit in four quarters to be   #
four parochines. 
   The 19 of Apryle, M=r= Ro=t= Bruce receavit and admittit. 
   The 26 of Apryle, M=r= James Balfour maid mariage and        #
baptisme in 
the Littil Kirk, qlk wes ye first yat wes done in yat kirk. 
   In ye beginning of yis moneth, the societie begun to y=r:=   #
work at the 
Gray Friar kirke. 
   The 2 of Maii, the Duck of Holsten got ane banquet in        #
M'Morran's 
ludging given by the toune of Ed=r.= The King's M: and the      #
Queine 
being both yr: ther wes grate solemnitie and mirrines at the    #
said banquet. 
   The 27 of Maii, the laird of Johnestoun his pictor hung at   #
the 
crosse with hes heid dounwart, and declarit ane mansworne man;  #
and 
upone the 5 of Junii, he, and hes complices, wer put to the     #
horne, and 
pronuncit rebellis at the crosse be opin proclamatione. 
   The 3 of Junii, the Duck of Holsten, the Quein's M: brother, #
tuik 
schipping at Leithe: to his bonalay, 60 shott of ordinance      #
shott of the 
bulvarke of Leithe. 
   The same 3 of Junii, Robert Cathcart slaine pisching at the  #
wall in 
Peibleis wynd heid be W=m= Stewart, sone to S=r= W=m= Stewart.  #
The same 
Robert Cathcart wes at the slaughter of the said S=r= W=m=      #
Stewart befoir, 
sua yai yat slayis will be slaine. The said S=r= William        #
Stewart, q=n= he 
wes slaine, wes in the Earle Bothuell's companie. 
   In yis zeir of God, the ait maill sold for 6 sh: the peck,   #
and 5 sh: 
and 6d. the peck. 
   The 26 of Junii, ane conventioun haldin, at qlk ther wes     #
maid certaine 
actis: 1. Concerneing the agrement of the deidlie feids. 2. Of 
yame yat wer put to the horne for slaughter. 3. Ane act for     #
the 9 Barones
that had tane the Iyles in few. 4. Y=t= the Monday sould be a   #
day 
of absteining from work. 5. That nae man speik for the laird    #
of 
Johnestoun, nor speik w=t= him, nor haue to doe w=t= him. 6.    #
The Earll 
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of Angus maid lieutenant and wardene of the border. 7. That the #
debt 
awand by hes Maiestie to Thomas Fowlis, be payit in 6 zeirs,    #
viz. 30 
thousands merkis everie zeir. 8. The Bischope of Glasgow        #
restorit to 
hes liweing of the bischopric of Glasgow. 
   The last of yis Junii, ane suddaine fyir in Leithe. 
   The 10 of Julii, ane man, sume callit him a juglar, playit   #
sic sowple 
tricks upone ane tow, qlk wes festinit betwix the tope of S=t=  #
Geills kirk 
steiple and ane stair beneathe the crosse, callit Josias close  #
heid, the lyk 
wes nevir sene in yis countrie, as he raid doune the tow and    #
playit sa 
maney pavies on it. 
   The 3 of Aguste, ane tumult or faucht in the border be       #
deceit of 
Inglismen: q=n= the Scottismen wer at the hunting, yai wer sett #
on be the 
Inglismen, q=r= yair wes 6 Scottismen slaine, and 40 gentlemen  #
tane be 
the Inglismen.
   About yis same tyme, Neil M'Lane slaine, and twentie of hes  #
narrest 
freindis, and hes awen sone, be M'Connell, yai being at ane     #
tryst under 
trust. 
   The 23 of October, ane proclamatione of the laird of         #
Merkistoun,
that he tuik upone hand to make the land mair profitable nor    #
it wes befoir, 
be the sawing of salt upone it. 
   The 28 of October, Colonel S=r= William Stewart, with hes    #
complices, 
maid saill out of Leithe to the Iyles and Lewis, &c.
   The conventioun the last of October. Hes M. with hes         #
Estaitis, decernit
ane act concerning the papistis and jesuitis, yat nae persone   #
intertein
yame. Ane uther concerneing yame yat made excus for deidlie 
feids, yat yai wald not come and receive the communione, nor    #
be annuellie 
with them, bot remainit obstinat from the Lordis. 3.            #
Concerneing
horneris, yat yai sould be put in ane table, and yair names     #
writtin 
and hung at the mercat crosse of the heid burgh of schyr; w=t=  #
sundrie 
uther circumstances. 4. The forreine cunzie to have na passage  #
as of 
befoir; the Frenche croune III. 4.; the Inglishe teston 13. 6.; #
the 
ryal of 8. 4. 3. 4. 
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   The first of No=r=: the tolbuith alterit; and upone the 4    #
day, being 
the Sabbathe, ther wes preiching in it, and baptisme: the same  #
alteration
wes alterit to the former estait w=t=in fyve zeir after. 
   The 6 of No=r=: the King came to Ed=r=: to sie the           #
Magistratis chosen, 
and chusit Alexander Seton Lord Fyvie, and president of         #
Scotland, Provost
of Edinburghe: Baillies, viz. William Hamiltone, Johne          #
Moristone,
James Foreman, and Johne Lowrie. 
   The 19 and 20 of November, the Lordis Supper ministred in    #
all the 
4 several parioch kirks of Ed=r=: quhilk wes the first tyme     #
after the alteration
of the tolbuith. 
   The 5 of Februar, Lentrone began, bot wes stayit, be         #
reasone of 
the banquet and mariage of the Earle of Sutherland and M=r=: of #
Forbes 
w=t= twa dochters of the Mr of Elphingston. 
   The 12 of Februar, the laird of Riccarton stricken throw     #
the bodie 
be the twa brether of the Borthicks.
   The 15 of Februar, twa men hangit at the crosse for fals     #
l=res=
   The 16, James Corbet wryter, hangit in lyke maner. 
   The 20 of Marche, the assemblie haldin at Montros; sex       #
ministers 
chosen to be upone the secret counsell, and to have vot in      #
Parliament. 
   The 27 of Marche, the convention at Perthe. 
   The 2 of Apryll, being the Sabbathe day, Robert Achmutie,    #
barber, 
slew James Wauchope at the combat in S=t= Leonard's Hill, and,  #
upone 
the 23, the said Rt put in ward in the tolbuith of Ed=r=: and   #
in the meine 
tyme of hes being in ward, he hang ane cloke w=t=out the window #
of the 
ironehous, and anuther w=t=in the window y=r=, and saying yat   #
he wes seik,
and might not sie the light: he had aquafortis continuallie     #
seithing at 
the irone window, quhill at the last the irone window wes       #
eiten throw;
sua, upone a morneing, he caused hes prentes boy attend quhen   #
the 
toune gaird should have dissolvit, at qlk tyme the boy waitit   #
one and 
gaif hes Mr ane token yat ye said gaird wer gone, be the schaw  #
or waiff 
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of hes hand-curche. The said Rot; hung out an tow, q=r=on he    #
thought 
to have comeit doune; the said gaird spyit the waiff of the     #
handcurche, 
and sua the said Rot: wes disappoyntit of hes intentione and    #
devys;
and sua, on the 10 day, he wes beheidit at the crosse upone     #
ane scaffolt.
   The 2 of Julii, the laird of Johnestoun restorit to hes      #
honours at 
the crosse of Ed=r=, be the proclamatione of a herald and 4     #
trumpettis. 
   The same 2 day, Johne Kinland of Waristone murderit be hes   #
awin 
wyff and servant man, and her nurische being also upone the     #
conspiracy.
   The said gentilwoman being apprehendit, scho wes tane to the #
girth 
crosse upon the 5 day of Julii, and her heid struck fra her     #
bodie at the 
Cannagait fit, quha diet verie patiently. Her nurische wes      #
brunt at the 
same tyme, at 4 houres in the morneing, the 5 of Julii.
   The 11 of Julii, the laird of Carmichael buriet, quha wes    #
slaine be 
the Armstrangis and Carliles, he doing and executing his        #
office of wardenrie, 
upone the 16 of Junii befoir.
   The same 11 of Julii, newis came out of Flanders, of ane     #
batell 
fouchten at Newport, or betwix it and Slus, upone the 23 of     #
Junii befoir,
q=r= ther wes slaine 4 thousand Scottis and Inglish, and        #
sicklyke slaine 
of [^BLANK^] Spanzeardis 7 thousand men. 
   The 19 of Julii, Colonell Edmont landit at Leithe, and       #
haldin at 
great reputatione for hes wisdome and activitie in the waris    #
of Flanders. 
   The 21 of Julii, at 9 houres at evin, a combat or tuilzie    #
betwix twa 
brether of the Dempsters, and ane of yame slaine be Johne       #
Wilsone, 
and being tane wi hait bluid, he wes execut at the              #
flesche-stocks, qr: he
had slaine the man the nicht befoir. 
   The 5 of Auguste, his M: the King being invitit be the       #
Earle of 
Gowrie to banket w=t= him at the said Earle his hous at S=t=    #
Johnestoun.
The said Earle and hes brother bearing, or haveing malice and   #
deidlie 
hatred in their hairtis agains the King y=r= naturall prince,   #
yai had deuysit 
ane way to have tane hes lyff; bot the Lord preventit ther      #
intentione. 
The maner of the conspiracie wes - Quhen they fund occatioun    #
that hes 
M: haill nobillis and courtiers wer gone furthe, the twa        #
brether desyrit 
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his M: to goe and sie yair cabinet. His M: a blist soul,        #
thinking of no 
euil, went w=t= yame, q=r= they enterit in gripis w=t= him w=t= #
dageris to have 
slaine him. The King of kingis, the grate God, gave him         #
strenthe;
sua that he twist the Mr: of Gowrie under hes feit: and befoir  #
the Lord 
hes brother came to hes M: he cryit ouir ane window, Treasone!  #
Treasone!
In the meine tyme, the foirsaid twa brether, had ane man        #
standing 
behind the tapestrie in armes with ane twa handit sword in his  #
hand, 
quha wes ordeinit, giff yair sould come aney helpe, he sould    #
come 
furthe and keip the dore till the murder sould be done; bot it  #
pleasit 
God yat he wes maid powerless, and could not steir out of the   #
place qr:
he stuid. In the meine tyme that hes M: and the twa brether     #
are at the 
wrestling, Thomas Erskine and Johne Ramsay, hes M: page of      #
honour 
for the tyme, came rinning up to the cabinet qr: yair pntlie:   #
wes hard 
payment: at the last, the twa brether conspyreris of hes M:     #
baith wer 
stikit; and the Lord preservit the holy innocent prince. 
   The newis came to Edr: the 6 day of August, that hes M: had  #
escapit 
sic ane danger, q=r=at yair wes sic ioy yat the canons shott,   #
the bellis rang, 
the trumpettis soundit, the drums strak. The toune rais in      #
armes with 
schutting of muskettis, casting of fyir workes, and banefyirs   #
set furth, 
in sic maner the lyk wes nevir sene in Scotland, ther wes sic   #
dancing 
and mirrines all the nicht. 
   The same day, in lyk maner, the  Earle of Montrois being     #
chanseler, 
the Master of Elphingston thesaurer, Sir David Murray           #
comptroller, 
S=r= James Elphingston collector, w=t= sundrie uther nobillis,  #
went to the 
crosse of Edin=r:= and yair hard Mr: David Lindesay mak ane     #
orisone, and 
the haill peiple sett down on yr: knies, giving thanks to God   #
for the 
King's deliuerance out of sic ane grate danger. 
   The 11 day of Auguste, being Monday, the King came ouer the  #
water. 
The toune, with the haill suburbis, met him upone the sandis    #
of 
Leithe in armes, w=t= grate ioy, and schutting of muskettis,    #
and shaking
of pikes. He went to the kirk of Leith to Mr: David Lindesayis  #
orisone. 
Y=r=after, the toune of Edr: haveing conveinit up to Edr:, and  #
standing at 
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the hie gaitt, hes M: past to the crosse, the crosse being      #
hung wt: tapestrie,
and went up y=r=on wt: his nobillis. M=r= Patrick Gallaway      #
being yair, 
made ane sermone upone the 124 psalm; he declarit the haill     #
circumstances 
of the treasone proposit by the Earle of Gowrie and hes         #
brother, 
qlk the King testifiet be hes awen mouth sitting upone the      #
crosse all the 
tyme of the sermone. 
   The nixt day following, at 6 houris at evin, the fyve        #
ministers of 
Edr: banischit be opin proclamation and sound of trumpet at     #
the crosse, 
for not affirming the King's words qlk he ratifiet at the       #
crosse. Thair 
names, M=r= Robert Bruce, M=r= James Balfour, M=r= William      #
Watsone, 
M=r= Walter M'Canquell, M=r= John Hall, and chargit yame yat    #
yai come 
not w=t=in ten myles of hes M:, nor w=t=in ten myles to Edr,    #
and charging 
yame not to teich and preich, under the paine of deathe. 



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