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[^LESLEY, JOHN. 
THE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, FROM THE DEATH OF KING JAMES I
... TO THE YEAR M.D.LXI. BANNATYNE CLUB, 38.
EDINBURGH 1830.
PP. 234.14-264.14.^]

<P 234>
[}QUENE MARIE}]
   The Quene dowarier being a wyfe, discreit and politique      #
ladie, considering
the gret quyetnes that the realme of Scotland was broucht       #
unto, 
be the helpe and support send frome France to the releif and    #
libertie of 
Scotlande, frome the gret thraldome and apperand danger was     #
licklie 
and emanent thairto throch the cruell persuit of Ingland; for   #
the quhilk 
sho thought that sho had deserved gret fawour and thankis of    #
the nobilitie
and subjectis of Scotlande, and no les of the King of France    #
and 
his nobilitie; for that sho had caused convoye the Quene hir    #
dochtir heretour
of Scotland into France, quhairby thair was gret apperance      #
that the 
realme of Scotland suld remane in all tymis cuming not onlie    #
joynit 
with thame in frindship as thair princepall considerat and      #
allya, lyk as 
it had bene contenowallie be the space of viij hundreth yeris   #
preceiding;
bot also now it mycht be maide moir subject and bound unto      #
thame, 
yea, as a provnce joynit unto France be mariage, as Britang+ge  #
and 
Normoundie ar subject at this present; and to the effect sho    #
mycht 
congratulat and rejoise with the King of France and hir         #
freindis thair, 
and also to visite the Quene hir dochter, bot most              #
princepallie to prepair 
<P 235>
and fynd all moyens, be the quhilkis sho mycht obtane the       #
governement 
of the realme of Scotlande and be regent thairof, as it so      #
come to pas 
eftirwart; sho determinat be the adwyse of Messires Dosell, de 
Thermes, la Chapelle and utheris wyfe French men, to make a     #
voyage 
in France. And to the effect sho sould be the bettir            #
accumpaneit, and 
to caus the King and hir freind knaw the gret fawoir and luf    #
that sho
had of the nobill men of Scotland, persuadit a gret nombre of   #
Erlis, 
Lordis, Barronis and gentill men of Scotland to accumpanie hir  #
during 
hir wayage; principallie the Erle of Huntlie and his lady, and  #
his moder, 
Erlis Merchell, Sutherlande, Cassillis and dyvers utheris,      #
quha glaidlie 
obeyit hir desyre, and maid preparatione during the rest of     #
that symmer 
for the same. The Quene also send in France for certane         #
gallayis to 
cum in Scotland for hir moir suir convoy .
  Quhen thir thingis war preparing, the Erle of Huntlie caused  #
take 
Williame M'Kintoche of Dunnachtane capitane of the Glenhatten,  #
quha 
was accused for the concealing of ane conspiracie devised       #
aganis the said 
Erle, being chancelar of Scotlande, liuetennentgenerall of      #
the northepartis, 
and our lord to the saide Williame M'Kintosche of his landis;   #
quha come in 
the said Erlis will for the samin, and thairfoir he was heidit  #
at Strabogy in 
the moneth of August, and his landis forfaltit. For the quhilk  #
caus thair 
was gret appearance of feade betuix the erle of Huntlie and     #
the Erle of 
Cassillis and utheris, quha lamented M'Kintocheis deid. Bot     #
the mater 
was eftir aggreit be the Quene Regent, and the proces of        #
forfaltour reduced,
and M'Kintochis air restored to his haill landis. Yet the kin   #
of Glenhattan 
tuik revenge thairof; for shortlie thaireftir the principallis  #
of thame enterit 
be policie within the castell of Pettie, quhair Lauchlane       #
M'Kintoche remanit,
quhom thay allegit to be the authour and inventar of that       #
purpose, and 
first revelar thairof to the Erle of Huntlie; and thairfoir     #
they crewellie 
slew him, albeit he was of thair awin kin, and banished all     #
thame that 
pertenit to him furth of thair boundis. 
<P 236>
   In the beginning of the moneth of Septembre, Leowin Strosse  #
priour 
of Capoa, arryved in Scotlande, with sax gallayis and certane   #
shippes;
and shortlie thairefter the Quene douarier, accumpaneit with    #
the Erle 
of Huntlie and a gret nombre of the nobilitie of Scotlande, of  #
ladeis and 
gentill men, with Monsieur Dosell, de Thermes and uthers        #
Frenche 
and Italiane capitans, enbarqued at Leyth, and sayled with      #
prosperous 
windis be the coist of Ingland  till France, quhair thay        #
arryvit in the 
raid of Deip, and landit thair with all thair hoill cumpanie    #
the xix day 
of September; quhair sho was honorable receaved, and frome      #
that convoyit
to Rowen, quhair the King was then resident, making his entre 
thair; quho receaved hir with gret effectione and fawour,       #
shawin alswell
to all the nobill men that was with hir as to hir self; quhair  #
the 
King kepit the solempnitie of the ordour of Sanct Michaell      #
with gret 
triumph, amangis the quhilk the Erle of Huntlie was honourable  #
plesed 
as one of thame, according to his ancietie and estait. In this  #
triumphe,
and all the rest of the voyage, the Quene of Scotlande was      #
present in 
the Kingis courte, quhilk was verey confortable to the Quene    #
douarier
and rest of the nobill men of Scotlande; quha remanit still in  #
the King 
of France cumpanie till his cuming to Pareis, quhilk was aboute #
the 
middest of October, quhair thair was guid intertenement maid    #
to the 
Quene douarier and nobill men of Scotlande, be the nobilitie    #
of France,
specialie the Quenis frendis. Bot  most of all, the King him    #
self used 
so gret familiartie and sa humane and gentill behaveour toward  #
thame, 
and specialie toward the Erle of Huntlie and utheris, that he   #
allured 
thair hairttis in sic sort, that at all tyme the said King      #
Henrie was 
thocht to be the moist humane and luffing King to Scottis men   #
of ony 
that had bene mony yeris preceding; and so hie contenowit in    #
the same 
favour to his deith. And eftir the King had tareit thair        #
certane dais, 
he tuik his jornay toward Bloyse, and be the way maid his       #
entre in the 
toun of Chartres, the xx day of November, accompaneit with the  #
Quene 
<P 237>
of Scotlande and the Quene douarier hir moder, and the nobill   #
men of 
Scotlande; and frome that maid his entre in Bloyse, quhair the  #
Quene 
of Scotlande and the rest of that cumpanye maid residens all    #
the rest of 
that winter. During the quhilk tyme the Quene douarier did      #
oppin 
the caus of hir cuming into France to the King and his secreit  #
counsallouris, 
be the adwyse of the duike of Guise and Cardinall of Lorane     #
hir 
brethir, principallie for advancing of hir to the governement   #
of the 
realme of Scotland, quhilk was thocht verrey guid, and          #
approved be 
the King and his counsall, quha referrit the ordering and dres  #
of the 
hoill matter principallie to the Quene his self, specialie      #
quhat was to 
be observed to draw the governement of the realme furth of the  #
Duik 
of Chattillirailt handis without ony tumult. And to the effect  #
the Quene 
mycht bring hir purpose bettir to pas, sho persuadit the King   #
to grant 
a gift of the ducherie of Chattilliro in heretage to the Erle   #
of Arrane, 
than Governour of  Scotlande, making also his eldest sone       #
capitane of  
the Scottis cumpanie and men of armes and archers in France;    #
lyk 
wayis to mak ane gifte of the erledome of Murray in heretage    #
to the 
Erle of Huntlie; a gift of the erledome of Rothes to one of     #
the Erle of 
Rothes awin sonis, quha had mareit the Governors cousignes; a   #
new 
gifte of erledome of Angus to the Erle thairof; and siclike of  #
the 
erledome of Mortoun to Georg Douglas sone; with a gret nombre   #
of 
utheris giftis and confirmationis maid be the King to syndre    #
uther particuler
nobill and gentill men onder his seill and hand wreit,          #
oblishing
him (\in verbo regio\) to caus the Quene of Scotlande, at hir   #
perfyte aige, 
ratifie and approve the samyn, or ellis he to gif thame as      #
guid within 
the realme of France; apoun the quhilkis thair wes lettres      #
patentis 
maid in dew forme, quhilkis the Quene douarier delivered to     #
everye 
ane at hir discretione. 
   In this meintyme, the Governour of Scotlande send Sir        #
Robert Carnegy
knycht, in France, to gif the King most hartlie thankis for     #
the gret 
<P 238>
supporte he had send in Scotlande, throch the quhilk the        #
Inglismen war 
expellit furth of the realme. Bot or his returning, the Quene   #
douarier 
caused the king propone to the bischope of Ros, than resident   #
ambassadour
for Scotlande in France, and to the saide Sir Robert, and to 
Maister Gawin Hamiltoun abbot of Kilvinning, the first motione, #
that 
the Quene douarier suld haif the governement of the realme of   #
Scotlande,
and be maid regent thairof. And to gratifie the Governour in 
the meintyme, the said ambassadours receaved possession of the  #
ducherie 
of Chattilliroult, towin and palice thairof, in the             #
Governouris name, and 
appointit ane gentill man, callit James Hammiltoun of           #
Ormestoun, to 
haif cure and charge, and receave the fruittis and rentis       #
thairof, to his 
utilitie and proffeit; and lykewyse his eldest sone, the Erle   #
of Arrane, 
being than in France, receaved charge of the Scottis cumpanie,  #
men of 
armes and archers, with honorabill estait and intertenement     #
for the 
samyn. And so the said Sir Robert Carnegy returnit in           #
Scotlande;
and shortlie thaireftir, the bischope of Ros followit, to       #
persuaid the Governour
to aggre to the kingis desyris, quhairin he maid gret travell, 
quhill at last he brocht the same to passe; and for his         #
reward, the king 
gaif to him the abay of Lassye in France, quhilk he enjoyit     #
thaireftir all 
his dayis. 
   At this tyme, King Eduard of Inglande send the Marques of    #
Northamptoun
and certane utheris nobill men of Inglande, in message to the 
King of France to Bloyse; quhair thair was gret bonespellis,    #
matches 
and wedfeis betuix the Scottismen and the Inglismen in sindre   #
gammes,
exercise of thair bodeis, alsweill with the croce bow, putting  #
of the 
stane, and bar of irine, as in wrasling and sindre utheris      #
gammes, quhairin 
thay did excell all uther nations; sua that the King and        #
nobilitie of 
France tuike gret pleasour thairof, and thay used thame         #
selffis to the gret 
honor of boith thair nations, albeit in treuith the Scottismen  #
did excell
the uther in the most pairt of all foirsaide gammes. 
<P 239>
   In the beginning of symmer thaireftir, the King,             #
accumpaneit with 
the Quene of Scotlande, Quene douarier, and nobilitie thairof,  #
past to 
the tounes of Towres, Anges, Nantis, and divers utheris townis  #
in the 
ducherie of Britang+ge, and maid his entres, quhair he was with #
grete 
triumphe receaved; and eftir his returning, lykewyse in         #
Orleance, and 
fre that come to Fontaneblew; quhair the Quene douarier and     #
all the 
nobilitie of Scotlande, tuik thair leif of the King and the     #
Quene of 
Scotlande, and nobill men of France, with gret fawour,          #
benevolens and 
guid intertenement; and fre that the Quene douarier past to     #
Jamveill 
in Champaing+ge, to visse the Duches of Guise hir modir and     #
utheris hir 
freindis, quha than was in duile for departing of that nobill   #
and ancient 
prince the Duike of Guyse hir fader, quha deceissit the yeir    #
preceding.
In the meintyme, the most pairt of hir cumpanie remanit in      #
Paris bying 
and preparing sindre thingis to be had in Scotlande with        #
thame, quhilkis 
was moir superfluus nor necesser, as everie ains, bot specialie #
the ladeis 
fantaseis did move thame; and fre that the Quene douarier and   #
all hir 
cumpanie com to Rwan, quhair sho tuik purpose to pas in         #
Scotlande 
throch Ingland, and so embarkin thair, past be watter to the    #
New Heavin,
and frome that salit throch the sey, and landit at Portismowth 
apoun the west parte of Inglande; quhair sho was honorablie     #
receaved 
and interteneit, and convoyit throch Hampschyre, Sussex and     #
Surrey,
be the Erle of Southamptone, Lord Williame Haward and uther     #
nobill
men with gret cumpaneis, quhill sho come to Hamptoun courte,    #
quhair 
sho was receaved be King Eduard, with gret benivolens and well  #
interteneit;
and fre that convoyit doun the river of Temmes in the Kingis 
bairges to Lundoun, and ludged in the bischope of Lundonis      #
palice;
and shortlie thaireftir, King Eduard come to the Quhythall for  #
intertenement
of the Quene douarier, quhair gret banqueting and honorable 
pastyme was maid, and all the antiquiteis, monumentis and       #
princepall 
jouallis of the realme was shawin to hir. And than was          #
proponit to hir 
<P 240>
in most effecteous maner be King Eduard, to persuade the King   #
of 
France to leave the mariage of the Quene of Scotlande with his  #
eldest 
sone, and to aggre that he mycht marie hir, according to the    #
first appointment 
maid be the Governour and estatis of Scotlande to that effect, 
quhilk he affirmed was most meit for the unione of boith the    #
realmes, 
stanching of bluid, and for a perpetuall quietnes in tymis      #
cuming; and 
he assured hir, that utherwayis quhosoever mareit hir suld not  #
haif hir 
with his kindnes, bot he suld be ennemy to him in all tymis     #
cuming.
To the quhilk, the said nobill lady maid wyse ansueris,         #
affirmyng that 
the fault was in the rigorous perswit maid be fyre and suord    #
be the 
Protectour and utheris of his cunsall, aganis the realme of     #
Scotlande, 
that forced the nobilitie to seik support fro France, and       #
thair throch was 
constraned to send the Quene thair; and that sic fassione of    #
dealing was 
not the nerrest way to cunques a lady and princes of heretage   #
in mariage,
quho suld rather be socht be curtes, humane and gentill         #
behaviour, 
nor be rigorous crewell and extreme persuit; and forder, gif    #
thay had 
begun at hir guid will quha was modir to the Quene, quhen thay  #
attempted
uther extraordinall meanes, sho had shawin hir moir faworabill 
in that mater. Yit since so it was happinnit, that the King     #
him selfe 
had proponit the mater unto her, sho promiset to make           #
advertisment 
thairof to the King of France and hir freindis thair, shortlie  #
eftir hir 
returning in Scotland. And so eftir guid intertenement, sho     #
tuike hir 
leif of the King, and was honorablie convoyit through the       #
citie of 
Lundoun be the Duik of Northumberland, Erle of Penbruch, and 
mony uther nobill men; the Mair of the citie and auldermen      #
being 
placed in the way in honorabill cumpaneis, and thairfre passit  #
to Wair;
and all the way quhill sho come to Bervicke, certane nobill     #
was appointit
in everie sherefdome for hir honorabill convoye; and thairfre 
past in Scotlande, quhair sho was receaved be the Erle          #
Bothuile, Lord 
Hwme and utheris barronis apoun the bordouris, and convoyit to  #
Edinburgh,
<P 241>
quhair the Governour receaved hir with gret honour and fawour. 
And here is to be rememberit, that quhen the Quene ambarqued    #
at 
Newhevin to pas in Ingland, that the Erle of Huntlie wald not   #
pas 
with hir, for that he feared that in case he entered within     #
Ingland, he 
walde be stayed be reasoun he departed, being presoner in       #
thair handis, 
bot thair licence or ransoun payed; and thairfoir saled the     #
neirest way 
be the coast of Ingland in Scotland, and landit at the toun of  #
Montrose, 
in the end of the moneth of September; and mony of the          #
princepall of  
the nobill men returnit also in Scotlande be the same way.      #
Quhill 
the Quene regent was in France, thair was ane tressonable       #
practise devised
and interprised to be execut, for poysoning of the Quene of     #
Scotland 
in France, quhilk was tryed furth and reveled be ane            #
Scottisman 
callit James Hendersoun, at that tyme resident in Ingland; be   #
quhais 
advertisment, the principall authour callit Stewart, being      #
ane archear of 
the King of France gard, quha had takin upon hand to execut     #
the same, 
was apprehendit in the towne of Blaisse in France, and eftir    #
dyvers tormentis
was hangit and quarterit for the same. 
   In this yeir of God, I=m= V=c= and fiftie ane yeiris, the    #
Governour caused
hald ane parliament in the moneth of Maij, and ane uther in     #
the moneth 
of Februar thaireftir; quhairin thair was sindry actis and      #
guid lawis
maid for the commone wele of the realme, and executioun of      #
justice. 
   Sone eftir the Quenis returning, sho labored to aggre all    #
the nobill
men o sic debaittis, controversies and querrellis, as had       #
bene nurist 
amangis thame the tyme of the warris, specialie for the rycht   #
and tytilles 
of certane of the princepall benefices of the realme, quhilkis  #
had bene 
lang in question amangis thame, quhairof the agrement was       #
refferred 
unto hir; quha, be the adwyse of the Governour, Erlis of        #
Huntlie, Angus,
Argyle, ordanit, that the Governouris brodir suld remane        #
bischop of 
Sanct Androis, quhairto he was alreddy provydit; and his        #
seconde sone 
suld haif the abacye of Arbroith; and that Maister James        #
Betoun, quha 
<P 242>
had richt to the said abacye, suld be promoved to the           #
archebischoprik 
of Glasgw; and the possessione of the bischoprik of Dunkell     #
suld be left 
be the abbot of Cowper, quha was the Erle of Argylis frend,     #
and gevin 
to ane Creychtoun, quha was lauchfullie providit thairto; and   #
in recompense 
of the said abbot, suld haif the first bischoprik that          #
hapinnit to 
waik, quhilk was the bischoprik of Brechin, to the quhilk he    #
was nominat
be the Quene thaireftir. Lykwyse, Maister Alexander Gordoun, 
brodir to the Erle of Huntly, being anis providit and           #
consecret at 
Rowme archebischope of Glasgw; for renuncing of the tytle       #
thairof, 
he gat the gift of the abbacy of Inchechaffray, and retynit     #
the stile of 
ane archebischoppe, being titillit of Athenis, till he was      #
promoved to the 
bischoprik of Galloway in Scotlande. Thir and mony uther        #
controverseis
war aggreit, be the wisdome and gret discretione of the         #
nobilitie, 
and the Quene douarier, to the quietnes and contentatioun of    #
all the 
hoill cuntrey. 
   About the samyn tyme, ane lerned wyse aged father, callit    #
Doctor 
Wauchop Scottisman, archebischop of Armacham in Ireland, quha   #
was 
contenowalie frome his infancy blind, yit was of so excellent   #
guid lerning
and knawlege, that he was maid doctour of theologie in Paris;   #
for  
the quhilk, and for his wisdome and experience, he was          #
promoved be 
Paip Paule the third to the said archebischoprike, and send     #
legate and 
ambassadour be him and Paip Julij the third oftymes to the      #
Empreour, 
and in France, Scotland, Ireland, and uther partis, with        #
commision also 
of a legat a latere, quhair he execut his charge wyslye and     #
discretlie to the 
admiratione of many, and to the gret honour of his hoill        #
natione, and now 
deceissit in Paris the x day of November, and was bureid in     #
the Gray freris. 
   During the tyme that the Quene douarier and the nobilitie    #
of Scotlande
was in France, thair come ane doctour phisitiane, callit        #
Ramsay, 
Scottisman, furth of Turing in Pyedmount to France, being of    #
gret 
aige and guid lerning and experience, quha served all the       #
nobill men of 
<P 243>
Scotland and thair hoill cumpanye, with sic things as was       #
necessar for 
thame, frelie apoun his awin charges, moved onely for the       #
zeill he buir 
toward his cuntrey; swa that he wald not suffer thame to cum    #
onder the 
cuir and medicine of strangers, in case thay mycht haif         #
hapinnit in sum 
onrecoverabill inconvenient, ather be evill drogges or          #
onlerned mixtour 
thairof; as happinit to the nobill men quha come to the         #
mariage of the 
Quene in France in the fiftie aucht yere of God thaireftir.
   The hoill realme of Scotland being this maner in quyetnes,   #
everye 
man addrest him self to policie, and to big, plant and          #
pleneise those 
rowmes quhilkis throch the trublis of the warris, be Inglismen  #
or utheris 
had bene wasted, brint, spulyeit, or distroyit; and for         #
establissing throch 
all the partis of the realme, the Governour be advyse of the    #
Quene and 
nobilitie, determinit to hald justice aris throch all the       #
partis of the 
realme, and that rather for staying of trubles in tymis, nor    #
for rigorous 
punishment of anye offences by past; and to that effect, he     #
being accumpaneit
with the Quene and syndre uther nobill men, past in the 
north partis of Scotlande, and first held his aris at Invernes  #
in the moneth
of Julij; quhair thair was litill punishment or executione of   #
mennis 
bodeis, bot certane compositioun of money takin frome every     #
man according
to his strait conditione, and qualitie of the cryme; and fra    #
that 
come forduart to Elgin, Banf and Aberden; thaireftir to Dundie  #
and 
Perth, quhair the lyk ordour was observed and kepit; and from   #
that past 
in the west cuntrey to Glasgw, Langrig, Dumfreis, and utheris   #
partis, 
doing the like thair; as in Edinburgh, Louthiane and these      #
partis in the 
nixt winter. And in the tyme of Lentren thaireftir he past to   #
Jedbrough 
quhair he held his aris, putting ordour and guid rule to all    #
the effaris of 
the bordouris, boith on the eist and myddill merchis, as he     #
had done in 
Dumfries on the west of befoir; appointing wyse and discrete    #
capitanis, 
wardanis and officers thairupoun, quha kepit all the bordouris  #
in guid 
justice and quietnes. 
<P 244>
   In this progres, Sir George Douglas of Pettindrich knycht,   #
brodir to 
the Erle of Angus, quha had beine a man of gret wit and         #
experience, 
deceissit in the tyme of the aris in Elgin; quhome I do heir    #
remember, 
for that he was so well knawin in his tyme in France, Scotland  #
and 
in Inglande, for his politeque and wechetie effares in the oft  #
changes of 
the governement of Scotlande, quhairin his inventionis and      #
moyens was 
not the leist. About the same tyme, Alexander Lord Gordon,      #
eldest 
sone to the Erle of Huntly, quha had mareit the Governouris     #
dochtir, 
and was a verrey wyse young man of guid qualiteis, deceissit    #
of ane 
bleding at Edinburgh. 
   At the tyme of the Governouris residens in Jedbruche,        #
Maister Dauid 
Panter bischope of Ros, albeit not than consecrat, quha had     #
bene contenowalie
ambassadour resident in France sevin yeris preceding, arryvit 
in Jedburgh, and was thair consecrat bischope with grete        #
solempnitie, 
triumphe and banqueting; quhair thair was sindrie of the        #
bordouraris 
maid knychtis, sic as the lairdis of Sesford, Farneherst,       #
Coldounknowis,
Sir Androw Kar of Littildein, the Larde of Grenheide,           #
Balcleuch and 
sindre utheris; and swa the Governor leissing all in quietnes   #
apoun the 
bordouris, returnit to Edinburgh. 
   During all the tyme of this progres and holding of aris,     #
the Quene 
douarier passit contenowalie in company with the Governor       #
throche all 
the partis of the realme; quhair sho laborit secreitlie at all  #
the lordis 
handis, boith spirituall and temporall, to aggre and gif thair  #
consentis 
to hir to be admittit regent of the realme of Scotlande,        #
during the rest 
of the minoritie of the Quene hir dochtir; and that sho mycht   #
be receaved
thairto quhosone the yeris of the tutorie suld be run furth     #
and 
endit, and soner gif law wald permit the samin; or in cais the  #
Governour
mycht be persuadit for favour, pleasour or guid deid, befoir    #
the tyme 
thairof war run out, to leif the samyn; and for this effect     #
sho maid syndrie
promiseis of gret rewardis, with privie bandis to the lordis    #
particularlie;
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be the quhilk sho drew almost the hoill nobilitie of Scotland   #
to be 
of hir opinione, and to subscrive secretlie with hir; and so    #
thinking hir 
self assured of thame, sho caused the said bishope of Ros move  #
the mater 
to the Governour, desyringe him, apoun the King of Frances      #
name, to 
leiff the office and governement of the realme to the Quene     #
douarier 
with favour and benevolens. To the quhilk the governour on no   #
wayis 
at the first wald aggre, so that thair apperit gret divisione   #
to be betuix
him and the Quene, in sic sort that all the rest of that yeir   #
the Governour 
remained for the most pairt in Edinburgh, accumpaneit with ane  #
few 
nomber of lordis, and the Quene in Striveling, quhair sho had   #
gret resort
and almost contenowall cumpanie of the Erle of Angus, Huntly, 
Argyle, Atholl, Cassillis and mony utheris, in hoip of change   #
of the 
authoritie, to be rewardit for thair assistance. The Quene      #
perceaving 
the Governour not willing to leif the tutorie befoir the xij    #
yeris war compleit,
be the adwyse and counsall of sum exparte, did bringe a         #
questione 
that the same was alreddy experit and run furth quhosone the    #
Quene 
was xj yeris compleit and entered in the xij yeir of hir aige,  #
as sho was 
than presentlie apoun the sevint day of November in the yeir    #
of God
I=m= V=c= liij yeris; affirming that a yeir befoire the birth,  #
quhen that a prince 
is in the modir wombe suld be compted as they had bene borne,   #
quhensoevir
it may further advance thame in ony thing, and so to haif bene 
observed alsweill to the Princes of the realme of Scotlande as  #
within 
utheir cuntreis in tymis past. And to that effecte sho wreit    #
to all the 
nobill men of Scotlande, to conveine with hir at Striveling at  #
ane certane
day appointit thairto, to gif thair adwyse and consent          #
thairupoun;
quhair thay all convenit to that effect; so that the Governour  #
remanit 
almost his allaine in Edinburgh, accumpaneit onlie with the     #
bischope 
of Sanct Androis and Lord Levingstoun; quhair considering that  #
he 
culd not weill resist aganis the Quene douarier and the hoill   #
nobilitie, 
be eirnstfull messages and lettres send to him be the Erle of   #
Huntlye 
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and utheris nobill men, he past towart Striveling, and thair    #
be the adwyse 
of the hoill nobilitie and counsall, thair was a finall         #
aggrement 
maid betuix the Quene and Governour, that he suld leif, dimit   #
and gif 
our the office of tutorie of the Quene and governement of the   #
realme, 
to the effect that the Quene mycht cheife curatouris in         #
France, and be 
thair adwyse appoint the Quene douarier Regent of the realme    #
of Scotlande,
or ony utheir at thair pleasour; and that one parliament sould  #
be 
appointit to be haldin in the monethe of Aprile nixt following  #
in Edinburgh,
quhair the Governour sould publiclie gif our the said office;   #
and 
in the meintyme, for suir keping of his part, he aggreit to     #
deliver than 
presentlie the castell of Edinburgh in the handis of the Lord   #
Erskin, to be 
kepit unto the saide parliament, apoun that condicioune, that   #
in caise the 
Governor wald not keip his promeise, than the samyn sould be    #
delivered 
to the Quene douarier; and on the uther parte, in case sic      #
conditions as 
was promised to him suld not be kept, the said castell sould    #
be randerit 
agane to the Governour. Lykwyse the Quene douarier promesed to  #
the 
Governour ane full and ample discharge of all intromissioun     #
with King 
James the fyftis treassouris of gold and money, jowellis,       #
silver veshell, 
copbourdis, movables and plenishing, all utheris thingis        #
belonging
unto him the tyme of his deceis; and siclik ane discharge of    #
intromissioun
with all the fruittis, rentis, alsweill of the propertie as     #
causualtie 
pertening to the patrimonie of the crowne, intromettit or       #
receaved, or 
quhilkis suld haif bene receaved be him or ony in his name,     #
from the 
deceis of the King to the tyme of the nixt parliament; with     #
sufficient 
confirmatione of all giftis of benefices, wardis, mariages or   #
uther 
causualiteis quhatsumevir during the said tyme, and ane         #
confirmatione 
of the gift of the ducherie of Chattillirault to him and his    #
aris; and that 
the castell of Dumbartane suld remane in the Governouris        #
handis quhill 
the Quenis perfit aige; with sindre utheris pactionis,          #
promesis and conditionis.
And for suir keping thairof, the Quene promesed to caus the 
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thre estatis of the realme to be bundin and oblist onder thair  #
hand wreit 
and seales, lyk as the lordis thair present did than oblis      #
thame, that all 
the foirsaid suld be keipt unto the Governour, and that the     #
Quene sould 
nevir revoik, bot ratifie and appreve the samyn at hir perfyt   #
aige. And 
that in the same parliament the Duik of Chattillorault suld be  #
declarit 
be the thre estatis to be secounde persone to the realme, and   #
just and 
lawful heretour to the crowne, failyeing the Quene and the      #
lauchfull successione
of hir body. And swa all thir heades being well aggreit, the 
conventione was dissolvit; and for performing thairof, the      #
Governor 
presentlie caused deliver the keping of the castell of          #
Edinburgh, with 
all munitione being thairintill, to the Lord Erskyn; and the    #
Quene 
send with all speid in France, to obtene all sic discharges,    #
giftis, confirmations,
commissionis, and sic uther thingis necessar to be had agane 
the nixte parliament. 
   Quhill this appearance of divisione was standing betuix the  #
Governour 
and Quene, thair was sum in dyvers partis of the realme that    #
preissed to 
waikin auld deidlie feaddes, and to quyt querrellis, thinking   #
than to be 
tyme most convenient, for that it apperit most easie to thame   #
to get remissioun
of thair wicked dedis ather frome thame that left the           #
authorite, or 
thame that entered thairintill. Apoun this pretence, as         #
appered, the laird 
of Balcleuch was slayne in Edinburgh be the Karris;             #
quhairupoun gret 
fead and displeasour followit betuix the surnames of the        #
Karris and 
Scottis; and about the samyn tyme the maister of Ruthven slew   #
ane 
wailyeant gentill man callit Johne Charteris of Kinclevin in    #
Edinburgh,
apoun occasione of auld fead, and for staying a decreit of ane  #
proces 
quhilk the said Johne persewit aganis him befoir the Lordis of  #
the Sessione;
quhairupoun occasioun was taikin in the nixt parliament, that 
thair was a law maid that quhasumevir he was that slew any man  #
for 
the persuit of any actione aganis him, that he sulde lose the   #
rycht and 
tytle of his actione, and the slayer suld be also punished in   #
body and 
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guidis according to the lawis of the realme; quhilk was the     #
occatione 
of staying of sic crewell attemptis in tyme cuming. At the      #
same tyme, 
the Lord Sempill slew the Lord Creychtoun of Sanchar in the     #
Governouris
awin hous, apoun a suddan, within the toun of Edinburgh; for    #
the 
quhilk he was taikin and put in the castell of Edinburgh, and   #
had bene
execut thairfoir, war not the gret laboris maid be the Lorde    #
Sancharis 
freindis for sauftie of his lyf, through ane aggrement that     #
was labored 
betuix thame, be moyence of the bischop of Sanctandrois and     #
utheris 
his frendis at that tyme. 
   Quhen thir things was in doing in Scotlande, Edwarde the     #
sixt King 
of Ingland be long lingering seiknes departit out of this lyf   #
the sixt daie of 
Julij I=m= V=c= liij yeris; and immediatlie eftir his deceis,   #
apoun the ix daye 
of Julij, be meanis and laboris of the Duik of Northumberland   #
and 
utheris of his factione, ane callit Lady Jane, dochtir to the   #
Duik of 
Suffolke, was proclamed Quene; quhilk was the caus of gret      #
trubill to 
the said Duik and Ladye and all thair frendis; for apoun the    #
xx day of 
Julij nixt following, Ladye Marie, eldest dochtir of King       #
Henry the 
aucht, was proclamed and receaved Quene be the hoill nobilitie  #
and 
universall consent of the Estatis of the realme; and shortlie   #
thaireftir,
the Duik of Northhumberland, Duik of Suffolk, Lady Jane and     #
hir 
husbande Lorde Gilford, with a gret nomber of utheris, war all  #
beheidit 
at Lundoun; and the said Quene Marie being cronit, convenit a   #
parleament,
in the quhilk sho reduced the hoill realme to the auld          #
catholique 
religion, for observatione of the ordour used, ministratioun    #
of the 
sacramentis, messe and utheris service; admitting also the      #
suppremicie 
of the seate of Rome  within that realme, as it had bene used   #
in the 
beginning of King Henry the VIII hir faderis regne. And         #
shortlie 
thaireftir sho was mareit with Philip than Prince, now King of  #
Spainye, 
eldest sone to the emprior; for the quhilk caus thair was       #
rased sindre 
insurrectionis and conspiraceis within the realme of Inglande   #
aganis the 
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said mariage; quhilkis was quenched and set doun, bot not       #
without 
gret executione and bluid shed of the conspiratours thairof, as #
may be 
sene in thair cronicles and annellis, quha liftis to reid at    #
lenth. 
   Sone eftir the coronatione, all strangers, specialie the     #
Scottis men, 
quha ather for crymis or for religione, war banished thair      #
awin cuntreis, 
and ressait in Ingland in King Eduardis tyme, war charged to    #
depairt 
furth of that realme; and thairfoir Normound Leslie Maister of  #
Rothes, 
Laird of Grange, Maister Henry Balnafeis and thair cumpanie,    #
being 
banished Scotlande for the slauchter of the Cardinall, also     #
the Lairdis 
of Brunstoun and Ormestoun, and utheris than resident in        #
Inglande, 
returnit in France. Normound was employed in service of the     #
warris 
be King Henry of France aganis the Emprior, and gat the charge  #
of  
ane hundrethe lycht horsmen, in the quhilk he used him self     #
verrey vailyeantlie;
purposing thairby, that he mycht recover boith his honour and 
leaving, quhilk he had losed in Scotland be wicked counsell of  #
utheris,
in assisting that ungodlie deid, quhilk he repented verrey      #
soir at all 
tyme. Bot eftir syndre vailyeant factis and dedis of armes,     #
verrey happelie 
and curageouslie done be him in tha weares, to the gret honour  #
and 
confort of his natione, in a scarmushe at Rentoun in Picardie,  #
he was 
woundit be a shot of a pistolet, and of that hurt he deceisset  #
at Montrell 
the xxix day of August 1554. The King of France, for            #
recompance of 
his service, receaved his eldest brodir Williame in fawour,     #
and maid him 
gentill man of his chalmer, and he send the Lord of Grange and  #
all the 
rest of his companie in Scotlande, and caused thame to be       #
restored to 
thair levinges agane, be the Quene regent and estatis of        #
parliament. 
   The tyme of the appointit parliament for ending of all       #
thingis betuix
the Quene douarier and the Governour being cumin, the estatis   #
of 
Scotlande was convenit at Edinburgh, quhairupoun the xij day    #
of the 
moneth of Aprill, the Governour and Quene comperit, and the     #
parliament
was first set and fensed in the Quene oure soveranis name,      #
with 
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consent of James Duik of  Chattillire Erle of Arrane, hir       #
tutor and governour;
and thair was presented and red in presens of all the estatis, 
all the contractis maid betuix the Quene and Governour, with    #
the confirmationis
granted be the Quene, with consent of hir curatouris in 
France thairupoun, in ample forme; quhilkis war ratefeit and    #
apprevit be 
the estatis of parliament; and lykwyse was red ane contract,    #
be the 
quhilk the hoill estatis oblished thame to warrande the same    #
to the Governour
according to the former appointment, quhilkis was presentlie 
subscrivit be all those quho voit in parliament, and thair      #
seales affixit 
thairto; quhilkis being done, and he declared secound persoun   #
of the 
realme, the Governour in presens of the estatis and of the      #
Quene douarier
and Monsieur Dosell, ambassadour resident for the King of       #
France
in Scotland, renuncit an dimittit the office of tutorie and     #
governement
of the realme; and than presentlie was pronunced and            #
publiquelie red, 
ane commission gevin be the Quene of Scotlande in France, with  #
the 
consent of hir foirsaid curators, in most ample forme, making   #
the Quene 
hir modir regent of hir realme and lieges; quhilk commissione   #
and office 
sho acceptit apoun hir, and was admittit and receaved be the    #
estaitis 
thairto; and the parliament being of new sensed agane in name   #
of the 
Quene, with consent of the Quene regent hir modir, and          #
approved be 
the estatis, thaireftir the same wes dissolvit. 
   Quhen the Quene was placed in this maner be universall       #
consent of 
the estatis, and receaved as regent of the realme, than as the  #
commoune 
use is, at the change of the prince and authoritie, all the     #
princepall 
officiaris to be changed, the Erle of Cassillis was maid        #
thesaurar; ane 
Frenche man callit Welemort wes appoynted comptroller; Maister 
James M=c=Gill maid clark of the register; the abbot of Cowper, #
Lorde 
Privie Seill; ane callit Monsieur Rubie, Frenchman, a           #
procutour of 
Paris, appointit to keip the gret seill, and to be as vice      #
Chancelar and 
assister to the Erle of Huntlie than Chancelar; and sindre      #
uther particular
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offices war changed lykwyse. Bot the Quene regent shortlie 
thaireftir begouth to use the counsall of these Frenche men,    #
Dosell, 
Rubie, Welemort, moir nor of the nobilitie of Scotland, and of  #
ane 
called Monsieur Bonet, quhome sho maid governour of Orknay      #
thaireftir;
quhilk maid thame to conceave sum jolesie aganis the Quenis     #
governement,
evin in the beginning, albeit thai kepit the same secreitlie 
within thair breistis quhill the fiftie sevin yeir of God; at   #
quhilk tyme it 
was utterit at Maxwellheuch, to the gret disquieting of the     #
hoill estait. 
   Eftir the dissolving of this parliament the Quene Regent,    #
willing to 
put ordour to sum troubles in the hie landis of the cuntrey,    #
caused the 
Erle of Huntlie, with a commissione of livetennentrie, pas      #
with ane 
gret army to Abirtarf, within the sherifdome of Invernes, to    #
invaid 
Johne Mudyard his kin and assisteris; quhair the said Erle      #
being convenit
with ane gret nomber, alsweill of hieland as lawland men, he 
proponit to the principallis of the hoill oist, desyring thame  #
to merche 
forduart in the hie landis, for apprehending of the saide       #
Johne Mudyard
and his kin; bot the barronis and gentill men of the lawlandis  #
in 
speciall, refused to go in that cuntrey les nor thay mycht      #
travell on hors, 
as they culd on no wayis do in that boundis; and the said Erle  #
wald 
not merche with the hieland men onlie, for the lait hattrent    #
that thai
had conceaved aganis him for the deithe of M'Intoche, and       #
thairfoir he
returned. Quhairfoir the Quene send for the said Erle of        #
Huntlie, and 
accused him befoir the counsall for negligent executione of     #
his commissione,
and thairfoir he was wardit within the castell of Edinburgh in  #
the 
moneth of October, quhair he remaned contenowalie till the      #
moneth of 
Merche nixt following; and in the meintyme, gret inquisitione   #
was 
maid aganis him, be the informatione of his privat ennemeis;    #
bot at last 
the matter was so appointit, that the said Erle was maid        #
content to renunce
and dimit to the Quene regent the heretabill infestment of 
the erledome of Murray and Lordship of Abirnethy, the takkis    #
and 
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possessione of Orknay and Zetland, the baillierie and takkis    #
of the erledome 
of Mar and lordship of Straythdie, and was content to pas in 
France, thair to remaine for the space of fyve yeris; and be    #
this appointment
he was releissit furth of the castell. And eftir he had maid 
his preparatione reddy to depairt in France, and to that        #
effect the 
Quene regent had gevin him licence to conye all his silver      #
veshell for 
his furnessing, sho was content to discharge him of that        #
vyage, swa 
that he suld remane in Scotland, for payment of certane gret    #
sowmis of 
money, quhilk he caused deliver to hir than presentlie; and     #
thairfoir 
was restored to his office of chancellarie agane, althocht      #
Monsieur Rubie 
had the princepall charge thairof, and kepit the gret seill     #
during the 
hoill tyme of the Quene regentis governement. 
   About the samyn tyme returned in Scotland furth of France    #
ane 
wyse and lerned prelat, maister Henrie Sinclair deane of        #
Glasgw, vice 
president of the college of justice, quha had bene a familiar   #
counsalour to 
King James the fyft; bot during all the tyme of the             #
Governouris regement
was not in gret credeit; yit for his wisdome, knawlege and      #
experience,
was holdin in gret honour and estimatione be the Quene regent, 
and be the hoill nobilitie. Immediatlie eftir his arryving, he  #
caused be 
his counsall the bischoppe of Orknay, than president of the     #
college of 
justice, and all the senatouris thairof, mak certane statutes   #
for abbreviation
of processis, guid ordour to be observed in the said college,   #
reformatione 
of abusis, quhairof the actis, statutes and monumentis remanis  #
yit 
to thir our daies in the said college, quhairby justice may be  #
indefferentlie,
sinceirlie and uprichtlie ministred to all personis, and        #
frevolowis 
and superflowis termis and delationis cut away, and diligent    #
ordour be 
the lordis, thair scrybis, advocattis and members of court      #
observed, and 
all abuse removed; swa that thaireftir justice was dewlie       #
ministrat within 
the samyn, according to the lawis of the realme, in bettir      #
ordour nor it 
had bene in ony tyme preceding. 
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   In this mene seasoun thair was a parliament haldin at        #
Edinburgh, in 
the monethe of Julij, be the Quene regent and thre estatis of   #
the realme;
quhair thair was convenit mony nobill, wyse, lerned and expart  #
men 
as evir had bene at ony parliament mony yeris preceding; and    #
thair 
was mony and sindre guide statutis and lawis maid for the       #
commoun 
weill, tending princepallie to the quietnes of the hoill        #
subjectis thairof;
quhilkis ar contenit at lenth in the register buikis of the     #
actis of parliament,
and thairfoir I will not be superflowus in rehersing thairof;
albeit mony of thame be worthie of memorie, specialie the acte  #
of the 
dischargeing of gadderinges and assembleis used in flitting     #
Fryday and 
Witsoundaye, the dischargeingis of conventionis under the       #
cullour of 
Robeine Huid, and the discharge of ligges or bandis to be       #
taikin or 
gevin frome one subject to ane uther, and utheris siclik; for   #
the quhilkis 
sufficient ordour was providit in the saidis statutis, for the  #
commowne 
tranquilitie to be observed in tymis cuming. 
   At the same tyme, Quene Marie of Ingland was mareit to King 
Phillop Prince of Spaingye, upoun the xxv day of Julij at       #
Winchester;
quha send thairfre ane ambassadour in Scotland in baith thair   #
names to 
the Quene regent, to congratulat and rejose for the said        #
marriage; desyring 
hir to conserve amitie, freindship and peace betuix the twa     #
realmes;
and for conferming thairof, thair was appointit certane         #
commissioners 
to meit in the nixt symmer, as thay did apoun the bourdouris. 
   Quhill the Quene was putting ordour to the effaris of the    #
south partis 
in this wyse, the Erle of Atholl was send with speciall         #
commissione into 
the hielandis for apprehending of Johne Mudyarde; quhair he     #
wrought 
so be wisdome, policie and guid convoy, that the saide John     #
come with 
him to the Quene regent, with tow of his sonnis and certane of  #
his kin, 
and submitted thame into hir will; quha as a clement and        #
mercifull 
princes, moir of hir guidnes nor thair desertis, pardonit       #
thame at that 
tyme, and caused thame remane in waird within the toun of       #
Perth and 
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castell of Meffane, quhair thay war weill treated; yit as the   #
tod can not 
byd furth of his hoill, eftir thay had tareit thair certane     #
space, thay brak 
thair wardis, and past secreitlie in thair awin cuntrey,        #
quhaire thay sterit
up be thair counsall new troble agane, lyk as was also in       #
diverse partis of 
the hie landis; quhilk moved sore the Quene to make a jornay    #
in the 
nixt yeir in the north partis, to hold justice aris for         #
punishment of gret 
offences and stenching of sic misreule in tymes cuming. 
   In the beginning of this symmer thair was ane parliament     #
haldin at 
Edinburgh; in the quhilk the lairdis of Brunstoun, Ormestoun,   #
Grange, 
and certane utheris quha had bene forfaltit in the Governouris  #
tyme, 
war at the speciall request of the King of France restored,     #
and the same 
parliament was contenowit thaireftir, and callit a running      #
parliament. 
   During the tyme of the samyn, the Quene regent, be the       #
counsall of 
Monsieur Dosell, Rube, and certane lordis of the nobilitie,     #
desyred ane 
new ordour to be taikin be the estatis of the realme for        #
sustentatione of 
the warris aganis Ingland, quhen soevir thay suld happin to be  #
in tymes 
cuming; and that be payment of certane taxationis, impostis     #
and controbutionis,
to be raised and payit be everye man of quhatsoevir qualitie    #
or 
estait, conforme to the quantitie of his landis, rentis,        #
guidis, and substance.
And to that effect it was devysed that inventouris suld be      #
taikin 
be the shereffis of everie mannis rentis, goodes and            #
substance; and that 
with this taxation, men of weir to be conduced to ly apoun the  #
bordaris,
swa that no man suld be trubled to cum frome thair awin         #
housses for 
defence thairof, bot quhen the gret army of Ingland come        #
within the 
realme; quhilk new inventione, albeit sum of the lordis of the  #
nobilitie
for pleasour of the Quene seamed to aggre thairto for the       #
tyme, yit 
the barronis and gentill men was nathing content thairwith,     #
and for 
staying thairof maid mony privie assembleis and conventions;    #
and at 
last thair convenit in the abbay kirk of Halieruidhous to the   #
number of 
iij=c= barronis, and send tua of the most ancient amangis       #
thame,  quhilkis 
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was the lairds of Calder and Weames, to the Quene regent and    #
lordis 
of hir counsall, desyring moist humelie not to alter the        #
ancient custome, 
lawis and liberteis of the realme, in putting thame to sic      #
charges of payment
of sowmes of money; affirming that thair foirfatheris and       #
predicessouris 
had defendit the samyn, mony hundreth yeris, vailyeantlie with 
thair awin handis; and for that caus principallie thay had      #
thair levingis 
and landis gevin unto thame be thair prince, to serve him with  #
thair 
awin personis into the warris; and as thay beleiffit            #
assuredlie, none had 
power to dispence with thame, or alter the maner of thair       #
halding, or 
discharge thame of that service, specialie during the           #
minoritie of thair 
prince and soverane; for in that respect the King has bene      #
callit at all 
tymes, King of Scottes, that is rather in respect of men nor    #
of money or 
substance of the cuntrey; declaring also, that thay quha        #
presentlie inhabited 
the realme, was of als good curage and hardement, abill and 
vailyeant to defende thair realme as utheris thair forbears     #
hes bene in 
tymes past, thairfoir wald fecht with thair awin handis, and    #
defende 
the same with thair bodeis; for thay culd not trust any waged   #
man that 
he walde so faythfullie defende thair libertie, wyffis,         #
bairnis, landis and 
possessionis; and that thair was not so gret substance to be    #
spared within 
the realme, as to sustene so monye ydill men as war necessar    #
for defence 
of the bordouris; and last of all, thay affirmed, that the      #
same sulde caus 
the loirdis, barronis, gentill men, fall into sic ydilnes and   #
onskilfulnes, 
throuch laik of use of bearing and exercing thair armour, that  #
thay suld 
becum ane easie pray to quhatsumevir natione that waild invaid  #
the 
realme. Quhilkis thingis being declared to the Quene and        #
counsall, 
all the ressonis alleged be thame considerit, the Quene regent  #
be the 
adwyse of the nobilitie, desisted for any further travelling    #
in that matter;
and thocht thame nothing worthie of thankis that was the        #
inventaris
thairof, becaus it maid ane gret gruge and murmour amangis the  
people of the realme. 
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   At the same tyme thair was send to the bourdouris the        #
bischope of 
Dumblane, the laird of Lethingtone, and maister James M=c=Gill  #
commissioners 
for Scotlande, to meit with ane wyse and learned man, 
Tonstaill bishop of Durhame, and certane utheris commissioners  #
for 
Ingland; quhair thay remanit at Dunce during the monethis of    #
Julij, 
August and September, (at quhilk tyme the Quene was in the      #
north 
partis of Scotland at the aris,) quhair thair was treated sic   #
things as 
stude in controversie betuix the twa realmes, and guid justice  #
done and 
redres maid on ather of the sydis. 
   In this meintyme the Quene regent, making hir voyage in the  #
north 
partis, come in the moneth of Julij to Invernes, accompaneit    #
with the 
Erles of Huntly, Argyle, Atholl, Merchall, bishop of Ros and    #
Orknay, 
and syndre uther nobill men, and hir foirsaid counsaloris of    #
Frenche 
men, quhair sho held justice aris with most extreme and         #
rigorous 
punishment, and charged everie ane of the capitanis of the hie  #
landis 
to bring in the offendaris of thair awin kin, according to the  #
ordour prescribit
in King James the Fiftis tyme, onder gret panis; quhairthrow 
mony was entered, boith of M'Kenzey kin, Banagowin, Lord        #
Lowat, 
M'Kintoche, Laird of Grant and mony utheris, quhairof thar was  #
sindrie
execut; and amongis the rest, the Laird of Grant being charged 
to bring in ane speciall freind of his awin callit James        #
Graunte, for his 
oppressione, becaus he culd not be apprehendit and brocht       #
quick to the 
justice, he caused him and the rest of his cumpanye be slayne,  #
and thair 
heidis be presented to Quene regente. At the samyn tyme, the    #
Erle of 
Cathenis was charged lykwyse for the lyke causes, and was put   #
in warde, 
first in Invernes, and next in the castell of Edinburgh,        #
quhair he pait 
gret sowmis of money or he was delivered. Makky, the samyn      #
tyme 
capitane of Stranever, be the assistance of the Glengwn, quha   #
had done 
gret injures and wronges to the cuntrey of Sutherlande nixt     #
adjacent to 
thame, walde not entre: Thairfoir ye Quene caused the Erle of   #
Sutherlande 
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convene ane gret army, and pas within the cuntrey of            #
Strathnaver; 
and lykwyse send certane shippes be sey, quhairby he was        #
constraned 
to rander him selfe, and come with Sir Hew Kennedy to the       #
Quene,
quhair he remaned in waird in Edinburgh dyveris yeris           #
thaireftir; and 
syndre pledges was receaved for the Glengwn, quha was kepit in  #
sum 
strenthes for thair guid rule during the Quene regentis         #
pleasour. 
   Eftir the Quene had maid her residens in Invernes, and       #
visited the 
cuntre of Ros, sho returned to Elgin, Banf and Abirdene, quhair #
sho 
held aris lykwyse; bot not with so gret executione of mennis    #
bodeis, 
bot rather be compocitione of money; and so returned to Dundie  #
and 
Perthe, keping the like ordour; and in the nixt winter, caused  #
the Erle 
of Huntlie, with the counsall and assistance of the bischoppes  #
of 
Ros and Orknay, and Sir Hew Kennedy, take up privie             #
indytmentis, 
and hald ....... courtis thairupoun, within the shyres of       #
Invernes, 
Elgin, Fores and Nardin, quhair thair was a gret nomber execut,
quhilk maid the cuntrey to be haldin in gret quietnes           #
thaireftir. And 
here is to be remembred, that in all this jornay and progres    #
quhair 
the Quene Regent and her companie did pas, sho was receaved
verrey honorablie, and intertenit sumpteouslie in the nobill    #
mennis, 
prelattis and barrouns housis, so that the Frenche men praised  #
the same 
verrey meikill. 
   About this tyme, thair come ane gret ship, and with hir a    #
pink, furth 
of Muscovia, bowin toward Ingland with ane ambassadour frome    #
the 
Emperor of Muscovia, quhilk ship and pink was drevin be gret    #
stormes 
and windis apoun the northest of Scotlande, at Kynardis heid,   #
within the 
cuntrey of Buchane, quhair a gret nombre of thair cumpanie was  #
dronit 
and boith the shippes, the moist pairt of his guidis losed be   #
the wrake of  
the sey; bot the ambassadour him selfe was saved, with a gret   #
part of 
his cumpanie, and was weill intertenit be the cuntreymen, and   #
convoyit
thairfre to Edinburgh to the Quene Regent, quha efter guid      #
intertenement
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caused the Lord Hwme accompanie him to Berwik in the moneth 
of Februar thaireftir. 
   All this tyme, thair was gret and hoit ware betuix the King  #
of France 
and King Phillip of Spaine, quha had new receaved the           #
governement 
and possessioun of the Low Countres of Flanders, Holand,        #
Zelland and 
the rest; and for his support Quene Marie of Inglande send and  #
denunced 
warre to the King of France; and sho send ane army of ten       #
thowsand 
men, the Erle of Penbruch being appointed thair generall of     #
Flanders, 
to the support of King Phillip; and quhen sho was making        #
preparatione
thairfoir, sho sende to the Quene Regent, and desyred, that     #
commissioners
sould meit apoun the bordouris for intertenement of peace 
betuix the tua realmes; and to that effect thay met in the      #
moneth of 
Junij at Carleill; for the pairt of Scotlande, the bischop of   #
Orknay, 
the deane of Glasgw, Sir Robert Carnegy, and with thame the     #
Maister
of Maxwell, wardene of the west merchis; for the pairt of       #
Inglande, 
Tunstale, bishop of Durahame, Lord Dacres and Lord Whortoun;    #
quha 
remanit thair certane space, treating apoun redres of sic       #
wrangis and 
injureis as had bene laitlie doune apoun the bordouris. In      #
this meinquhyle,
thair arrived ane gentill man furth of France be the west sey, 
send to Quene Regent, declaring that the Quene of Ingland had   #
send 
and declared to him be ane of hir harraultis, callit            #
Clarentious, and had 
ane army in redines to be transported in Flanders for the       #
supporte of 
King Phillip hir husbande aganis him; thairfoir desyred hir to  #
move 
the nobilitie of Scotlande to make war aganis Inglande, be the  #
quhilk 
thay mycht be constraned to retire thair army within thair      #
awin realme 
agane. The Quene Regent being not onwillinge to forduart that   #
thing
mightly in her power, to the contentatione and pleasour of the  #
King of 
France and hir freindis, sho caused suddantlie make ane         #
conventione of 
the lordis at Newbottle, quhair sho persuadit thame ernistelie  #
to move
the war aganis Ingland; bot thay consydering the same rather    #
to procead 
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for pleasour of the King of France, nor for defence of thair    #
awin 
realme, principallie haiffing the commissioners of Scotlande    #
lying at Carleill
for redres to be had apoun the bourdoris, and that Ingland was  #
willinge 
to keip peace with thame, it maid thame thairfoir to be laith   #
to 
aggre to hir desyris, bot gaif differing ansuer to the Quene    #
Regent. 
Bot sho be the counsall of hir French capitanis, thinking to    #
entre onis 
the warris, quhairby the Scottismen suld be constraned to go    #
forduart
in the mater, send Monsieur Dosell and Capitane Charlebus with  #
all thair 
garnesonis of Frenche men suddantlie to Dumbar; and fre that    #
caused 
thame entir in Heymouth, not far distant frome Berwicke, and    #
fortefie 
the samyn most stronglie, to the gret annoyance of Inglande;    #
and thairfoir 
the Inglismen being in Berwicke perceaving thair interprice,    #
send 
furth to make impediment thairto, quhair thair was hott         #
scarmushing
amangis thame, bot yit the warke of fortificatione was sett     #
fordwart. 
And the Quene Regente in the meintyme, send with all speid to   #
the 
Scottis commissioners lying at Carleill, to caus thame retire   #
thame self 
within Scotland, as they did shortlie, albeit not without gret  #
hassard and 
perrell to haif bene retened thair, gif thai had tareit ij      #
houris longer 
than thay did in Inglis ground. 
   The lordis being with the Quene at Newbottill, hering of     #
Monsieur 
Dosellis procedingis, thay culd do no utherwyis nor aggre to    #
the Quenis 
Regentis desyris; and thairfoir thay send ane harrauld to the   #
Quene of  
Ingland, to desyre hir to retire hir army furth of France, or   #
ellis, conforme
to the ancient leage and confederacie standing betuix           #
Scotlande 
and France, thay behoved to denunce war; and gaif commissione   #
presentlie 
to the said harrauld to do the same, quha passit and fulfilled  #
the 
pointis of his commissione; and quhill he was in this jornay,   #
the Quene
appointed the Erle of Huntlie generall liuetennent apoun the    #
bordouris, 
with certane cumpaneis of horsmen and fuit men to await upoun   #
him;
quha acceptit the charge and past to the bordouris, and remaned #
at 
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Dunse in the Merse, quhair he prepared all thingis necessar     #
for the war;
and eftir the returning of the harrald frome Ingland, he        #
caused the 
Lord Hwm wardane of the eist merchis maik the first raid        #
within Ingland,
quhair he brint divers townis, spulyeit and tuik awaye gret     #
praye 
of guidis, in the beginning of the monethe of Julij; and fre    #
that furth,
the said erle accumpaneit with the Scottis men and Frenche men  #
maid 
sindre incursionis within Ingland, burning and spulyeing the    #
cuntrey, 
but any gret resistance, saiffing onlie sum litell scarmishis   #
that the souldioris 
of Berwick wald sum tyme make for the fassione. And in the 
meintyme, the Quene caused quarters to be keipt on the          #
bordouris, for 
assistance to the Erle of Huntlie livetennent, quhill the       #
conventione 
of the gret army in October nixt. 
   Quhill thay war thus bisse occupiet apoun the bordouris,     #
the Quene 
Regent caused assemble ane gret army furth of all the pairtis   #
of the 
realme; quha convenit at Kelso in the moneth of October,        #
quhair sho 
maid ernist persuatione to the nobilitie to pas within          #
Ingland, and invaid
the samin with fyre and sword. Bot thay taiking to be adwysed 
thair upoun, past our the Watter of Tueid to Maxwellheuch to    #
make 
thair generall mustoris, and eftir advisment to gyf ansuer      #
unto the 
Quene. Bot eftir lang and guid deliberance, the Duik of         #
Chattillero,
quha was appointed livetennent generall of the army,            #
accumpaneit with 
the Erles of Huntly, Argyle, Cassillis, and sindre utheris      #
nobill men, 
come to the Quene and delated unto hir, that thai thocht it     #
sufficient 
aneuch to thame to haif moved weir aganis Ingland,  and to      #
haif maid 
so great invasions as thay had done alredy, be the Erle of      #
Huntlie livetennent
of the bordours, all the iij monethes preciding; and gif it     #
war 
hir pleasour, thai wald remane with thair haill sortis apoun    #
the bordouris 
so lang as the army mycht be sustened together, abyding gif     #
the Inglismen
walde mak any invasione; bot thai culd not think it for the     #
weill of 
thair realme to pas within Ingland with thair hoill army at     #
that present,
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to hassard batle furth of thair cuntrey, thair princes being    #
absente and 
of les aige; thairfoir desyred hir most humelie to take the     #
samyn in 
guid pairt. Bot yit the Quene beinge impacient of thair         #
ansuer, wald 
not desyre thame to remaine any longer apoun the bordouris,     #
les nor 
thay wald enter within Ingland. And thairfoir, in a gret coler  #
and 
anger gaif thame licence all to depairt, leiffing only the      #
Frenche men
in Haymouth, with certane cumpaneis of horsmen and fuit men;    #
and 
fre that daie furth, the Quene Regent could nevir aggre with    #
the nobilitie;
and on the uther pairt, sindre of thame soucht be all meanes    #
for 
to raise sum seditione within the cuntrey aganis hir and the    #
Frenche;
and to that effecte thair was mony conventions keipt in dyvers  #
nuikis
of the realme all the nixt yeir following. And amangis all      #
politique 
devyses, ingenious and craftie inventionis, none was thocht so  #
guid to 
serve thair turne, and gif so guid a cullour to thair           #
interprice, as the 
cullour of reformatione of the religion; thinking that thairby  #
the hoill 
nobilitie mycht be brocht to one aggrement, and onder that      #
pretence
to take armour and go to the feildis; and being onis entered,   #
and showing 
thair faces aganis the authoritie, thay mycht be the moir       #
easelie persuadit 
to concur to the expelling of the Frenche men furth of the      #
realme. 
And to that effect, thay send in divers partis of Almany, for   #
sindre 
ministers and precheouris to cum in Scotland; as thay did in    #
the nixt
yeir followinge. 
   During the tyme of thir troblis in Scotland, thair was       #
verrey gret 
warris betuix the King of France and King Phillip of Spane,     #
apoun the 
fronters of France, and mony nobill men war taikin also be ane  #
gret 
assault and force of King Phillips army shortlie thaireftir;    #
quhilk moved 
the King of France to haist the mariage of the Quene of         #
Scotlande with 
the Dolphin his sone, soner nor his purpose was befoir;         #
fearing that by 
this and sic lyke ourthrowes and accedentis, the estatis of     #
Scotlande 
shuld be fundin the moir unwilling to accomplishe the mariage;  #
and 
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thairfoir the King send to the Quene Regent in Scotland,        #
message desyring
hir to assemble ane parliament, and thairintill be the adwyse 
of the estaitis, to appoint certan commissioners to pas in      #
France for 
accomplishment of the mariage, and to aggre to sic lyk          #
conditionis as 
war necessar to be treated, for the perpetuall aggrement of     #
boith the 
realmes. 
   Swa the Quene Regent being most willing to satisfie the      #
Kingis desyre,
caused convene ane parliament of the hoill estatis in           #
Edinburgh, 
in the monethe of December nixt, quhair was elected and         #
chosin, 
be universall consent of the thre estatis, certane nobill,      #
wyse and discreit 
men, James Betoun archebishop of Glasgw, Robert Reid bishop 
of Orknay, president of the college of justice, James Stewart   #
priour of 
Sanct Androis, for the clargy; George Leslie Erle of Rothes,    #
Gilbert 
Kennedy Erle of Cassillis, George Settoun Lord Setoun, James    #
Fleming
Lord Fleming, for the nobilitie; and John Erskin laird of Dun,
provest of Montrois for the burgessis; ambassadouris and        #
commissioners 
to pas in the realme of France as representinge the estatis,    #
and thairto 
contract the mariage of the most excellent princes Marie Quene  #
of 
Scotlande, our Soverane, with Frances, Dolphine, and eldest     #
sone and 
apperande air to Henry King of France, and to end and           #
solemnizat 
the samyn; quhairupoun thair was sufficient commissionis and    #
instructionis
maid to thame be the hoill estatis of the parliament, and thay 
acceipt the samyn apoun thame; and eftir dew preparatione maid  #
for 
thair viage, thay embarqued in the moneth of Februar in the     #
raid of 
Leyth, and saled throw the seyis with gret stormes and          #
tempestious windis,
till thay landit in France. Bot be the way, thay losed in that  #
jornay 
ane of thair shippes ladynit with horses, and all the nobill    #
mennis cofferis 
and utheris riches being thairintill, befoir Sanct Ebbis heid   #
in the mouth of 
the firth of Scotlande, and ane uther ship with gret riches     #
and mony gentill 
men, with the capitane thairof, callit Wattertoun, was losed    #
lykwyse 
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in the raid of Bullongye, eftir that the Erle of Rothes and     #
bischope 
of Orknay, with a few number, was put on land furth of the      #
same;
and all the rest of the commissioners was also landit furth of  #
thair uther 
shippes at the same tyme; and fre that thay war honourable      #
convoyit 
to Pareis, quhair thay war with gret honour and fawour          #
receaved be 
the King of France and his nobilitie in the monethe of Merche.  #
And 
shortlie thaireftir the contracte of mariage was maid, and      #
thair was 
landis assignit for hir dowarie in France, pairtlie the         #
cuntrey of Pouictiers 
and Towris, and ane uther pairt in Champaine and Picardie,      #
extending 
in yearlie rent to thrie scoir ten thousande franckis, and      #
with 
threttie thousande franckis of yeirlie pencione during hir      #
life tyme, besydis 
with mony jowellis gevin to hir be the King; the auld lig and 
band confermed, and was be publict act aggreit, that everie     #
one of the 
nationis suld be fre naturalized in boith the realmes; that it  #
suld be 
lesum to thame to joyse and bruik all kindis of offices,        #
heretages, beneficis,
and siclike alswell a Frenche man in Scotland as a Scottis man  #
in 
France, as thay had been naturallie borne, and mony siclike     #
priviliges 
concludit and past. 
   About this tyme in the moneth of Januar, the duik of Gwyse,  #
accumpaneid 
with Monsieur Daumell his brodir, Marchall Strossy, Monsieur 
de Thermes and syndre utheris vailyeant capitanis, merched      #
with a 
gret army towarde Caleis, being than in the Inglismennis        #
possessione, 
and laide suddantlie the gret artailyerie to the toun, and      #
dang the same 
with ordinance; and so gret assaultis was gevin thairto, that   #
the capitanis 
war constraned to rander the toun to the Duike, apoun sic       #
condicionis
as he pleased to aggre unto, upoun the viij daye of Januar      #
1557;
and shortlie thaireftir, all the hoill countrey with the toun   #
of Guynes, 
quhilk was rased, and the castell of Hames, quhilk had bene in  #
the 
possessione of the Inglismen moir nor two hundrethe yeir        #
befoir, was 
now holliely randerit and reduced to the King of France         #
obedience,
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with no les honour to the duik of Guise forthis vailyeant       #
interprice so 
happelie accheved, nor commoditie to the hoill realme of        #
France. And 
whosone the advertisment was brocht to Scotland thairof, the    #
Quene 
regent causit mak publick fyris of joy in the principall        #
townis of the 
realme, for the confortable newis of the same. 
   At the same tyme, Charles the fyft Empriour, being aged and  #
subject 
to seiknes, and thairfoire retired to Spane to pas the rest of  #
his dayis in 
quyet and solitarie lyf, send ambassadors to the electouris of  # 
the impyre, 
with sufficient commissionis and mandatis to renunce all his    #
authoritie 
and office of the impyre, in favours of Ferdinande his broder,  #
King of 
the Romanis; quha was admitted thairto and crownit Empriour be  #
universall 
consent of the electors, the xvij day of Merche. Not long       #
eftir, 
the said Charles, quha was all his daies a vailyeant and        #
victorious 
prince, deceissed in Spane in the nixt yeir 1559.



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