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Show BeseesesarahareT Thehiftorieof Scotland, of the queencof Cngland, thatetther he tow perfuade bit bukind people to recciue thetr patneeagaine ; 02 if they refufed the fame, thatthe fwonld gtue them anarmie, with tbich thep might compell them therebiite. ©) An few bours after this, the regent(callina fhe none of thenty for be ivas tv France at the tine of the Deed Deane . Wherefore the tegentthetving all becouldagaint the queenc df Scots fo) the vefente -_of fr aducrfartes;in the en,the queene of Crgland deferring the faine to another'dap, pormitten the fe gent to vepart'home to appeate the troubles there, and that be foul teaue fome one ofbis bebtno him, amatter to the Deciding of late, befaxeequall arbitra tors) Did contend (fith nothing twas dane but by ro to anflwere all {uch tuils as thould be obtecey x f -gainff btm. wight, bp lato,by the ancient cuftome of theircoun: teiey bp the Determination of the affemblie of pars iement , and bp the ub{crtption of mante fachas Wut the regent defiren thet tbilett he tons there, -that bis accufozs might be broughtout. daberepon were there prefent toaccule them)that bealonebp -the accufloys being prefent , and faieng that they hav His anthoritic coulomot vnde the fame:butabenthe Mot thert ante thing to fates but that thep twould furs ther thety their accufation fibere it: pleafen the could Cuglith coyrmifftoners bad denied that thep queene + the matter with ninth controuerfie ended bere atbome; be fatifficd inith thofe things Done omboth parts, ethecounicell biake bp tofthont anie pronounced by the Scots , ercept fome caufe tuere finallfentence therin. Sut btletf the regent rematfhelwed that infarcenthem fo feuerelietopronounce againtt thetc queene;the regent anfweted that bedid 20 ned thus in Cngtand (as isa little before touched ) there tuere manie things without fucceffe attemp thieflie fice that matter, leat bethould be detuen to ted bp the queeneof Scots followers. JFo2 James accute bis queene and fitter .Which bedenten todo, --Apamniltomn( tho little before bad beente gouerito: ) not ivilling tolaie abzoad to foxren nationsbhir wic) ked Deeds , aS Buchanan fearnreth them. Zo the ‘contvarie tubereof be twould not be infoyced,oniefie fhe nueneof Gngland would promife todefend the caute of thenow king ,andtotakebiminto bir pzor tection: ifbedid mantfcftlie prmue, that the queene being griened with the mithap of things at home, falling out contrarie tito bis mind , did therefoe Depart into France , there (remoued from all coms =-_pante,and on elie attended bpon fwith a mano3 two) be did fecretlie line to bimfelfe. Wut ober the queene of Scots foas efcaped the of Scots had murthered the king of Scots bir bulband. Wherebnto the Crglith antlvered , that thep 30 prtfor of Lochlenin and that thewas after fubpued iN battell,being {within a felp daies after compelled padautho2itic onelietobeare bothparts,amto Dee clare their ihole requeft bnito their queene, 5p reafon thereof , in the endthep twrofe fo the gueenic of England all the trate of thetr doings; tho pid turite backe, that the earle of urrete ould fend oneo2more tothe Cngltth court, fullieto ine foune bfthereof, fith he would dmallthereinthat belonged onto bir . Which letters recetucd ,theearle of Spurreiefent Metellan ( amanbeforefufpeaen, and thaf pid after toine in conference with Zobn 40 Lelie bithop of Rolle )tothe court of Gngland,afley ciated with James Macgill. Powatkerthefemen were come to the queene at London,it was thought moff conuentent by bir ab bir councell that theres gent bimtelfe thouls be prefent, ben all matters fo landin England; the Frenchmen that coulo not atu the eatle of Spurreienote bpbis friendscalled bonteinto bis countrie) into their factor, fhought -it bell for mantereatons (ith thep might not for the troubles in stvance fend bint fucco2 02 monie:) to _ratfe bp the faio Hamilton agatutt the earle of pure rete and efpectallie at that time hbilelt the x iwasin England. Wherefnye be comming ont bisdenabzone into the oaln,inriched bp the see With afeto golden crotwnes, amd ouercharged ty manie faire promiles, twas impoztuned byb z friends andbinred , whilett be baffened from oe Landinto Scotland,that the quene of England to : the authoritie of the quéene of Scots , would ae _-sthe earle of urteie to deliner bp bis regentthtp of controuerfie fuere intreated bpon . Jfo2 Kbicy Scotlandbontohim ; fith that place tuas of a . canfe, fending part of bis companic backe into buto him (by the maners and lates of all nations, Heotland, the regentcamewith afmall trafneto _-rbut chiefeliebp the cuftome of biscountric) as ne Aondon : there the fame dffficultie tyas obieaen ae agatnt bim hich was done at Borke : to whic) be 50 retin bloud, aw nertin facceflion 3 Fo2the profe ahereof, itis not - a; anfwered as befoie. Whit thee things were daing 3 fi the from hiffozies of memorie Bon bp the at London, thequeneof ScotsdinbyZamesiBale fure moue warresin Scotland. Ffo2thefurtherance confidering: it is Knotone fo all. men,that ame When the regent {aw himlelfe thusbetet onencs rie five, be deferntined fo returne fwith all (ped ints _the third, Koberthis oncle han the a ia the abfenceof Jamies the firi ; ano spurdac nea ‘bnitold,they could not setermine ante thing therein) and Pamilton bimfelfe, tn the nrinozitie thereof, the irote letters to birs and Wothivels friends, and made manie deputies to execute bir authoritie in Scotland. nozshaue bene giuen to thofeof pang peares coe able to rule the tingdome ) of {uch as haue cas neévetfof bloud. Jf02 fo, after the death of 3a a of the fame Aobert (ucceeded hint thereut "alba Secotlandafwell as he might , without vifpatch of that for abich be came. Wherefore the Englith Mill go late time inoue remembeance, Job puke oth nie didgouerne the pong peares of James : part inffantlie taging bim to tell thecaule (thidbeing fhat mouedthem todo thofe things in Scotland: fhe regent(lof) to offend the quene of England) af the queente that nolw ts , being as then net ie a bufband 02a kingdome, of0 a few ureae made along proteftation bow tutwilling he fpasto accufe the queene, and bis fifter;and thereforereque: ffedonething , that thep Gbich were the occafion fo lead biminto thisbattell might be pretent thereat, fo becaule he would ble their witnesinthe weigh fick matters . Which formaniegreat reafonsbeing -«‘the affaires of Scotland. Who nolw ee here -_bels , was through bnlatyfall boices re ui aa) -of with force and biolence , and that (abt eu abaffard is aduanced therebnto trcoaaaobi, -_full bloud. GLyich horno2, iftt fuere - vance -_be twonla fhoztlie aypeate all thofe se - sie ; red, thatthequeneof Scots (bp force andarmes expelled ) might be reffored home; € theretvftthall ‘without anie force o2 tumult of - cnet GLerevnts the bing of Scots - thing qaite nenicd by the Gnaltth, the queneof Englandrequie giting theregent adap, to thet cante thie the rez _reffore the queene of Scots onto bir that dparnilton divnot onelie dem King vane contrarte fo the laives and old cuftoms of Scots land; but alfo athing mot oniutt , if no authozt: fie of latw were agatnit it . $02 our anceftors( bp reafon of many murthers committed by thote of the bings bloud)almoff a thonfand tha bundjen peares paft,oid change the ozderin creating of their hings. Foz Hhereas before , thep th{ch tuere of the fam: lieof Ferguiius, the firbing of that name; tere inthe life of the king chofen after toreigne , not as thilozen to bis gouernment;teya int the cit famtthed Damthe eloetk, and aliv fhreatenen death onto the ponger fonne James, thich he did auoin by fieing Scotlanb, GHich Robert being inthe polteiion of authozitie by tpzannie (and bis bother billed twith thought) oto leaue the fame to Murdacibis forme, othattt cannot be dowbten that the mindof the laft king Robert was to bts biother , for be woula heuer (if be had [tued and beene i Health) pane nereft of bloud ; but as perfons mot twmzthie to 10 made him tutoof bis chilozen,thom at the boure of toeilda hingdome : Lsenneth the third (to theend to bis death be curflen asthe buteyer of his chilozer. take atwate from the court all treacherie towards the kings familie , and cruell murthers of kinreos amongefl them(elues ) dtd eftablith that order tbtch ts now obferued in creating of our kings ; Hbich twas, that the nert tn blond thoula be aduanced to Thattimealto, in which this tamilton gouerned, doth remember tnte bs mante things(though abat foeuer was thendone,is no profe that tt was ioell done) thichare tobe confideredof. fo? then the cardinal Beton did tabo2 byfubtiltie to tnnade the the placeof the oeceaffed king. thicfe gouernement, this Pamilton rather leaning But afferivards , oben men tere taught bp the to the hatred hid) god men div beare totvards tee fucceffe of things , that tt could fcarfe be chofen; fon,than trufting to the fauo2 of the people towards but that in (uch inconftancic of fortune, the right 20 bimfelfe, div leape into the emptte place of a gouers of the chiefet magtftrat mutt fometime light bp on childgen and bpon befresalfo irfit, fox gonernes ment, they did ordeine, that he Hould be chofen to the avininifration of the publike tuealth; abichoin ercell others in Wealth and toifedome, Which courte our anceftors haue kept almott thele fir bundzed peates leaning the bingdome whole ¢ foundto por ferttie. According to the hichchen Kobert Wute twas dead, there were gouernozs chofen bp bofces: to2 ; in thie) be ruled twitmath crneltie an cos uetoufnede,and in fetu peeres after,both folo the gos uernment (obteined bp force) and the queené , hom be bad tnoder bis authoritie . At that tinte tag thetwed the fauour which the people bare tnto bim, fen thep preferred the gouernementof a frange oe before the bondage thicy thep han wnver tm. Bou fee noiw(F hope) the requetk of the Wartila thich tere Thomas Kandolyh earle of Murreie, 30 tons to beagaing our countriclatves , md decrees Donaldearle of Mar,Andzelv Murreie,John wan: dolyh, ¢ oberé Steward, JFo2 fometime,as manie fwere chofen gouertto2s togither ; fo then James the fecond wwasa child,Alerander Leningfton,being no kin to the bing, no not fo much as of the nobilt fie but oneliea knight, was appointed gouerno2 to the pong king. Which may not beercufed,in fateng that the fame of our anceffo2s, and that focontrarte onto them, that toanting other fudicient arguments,be is cons freined to confirmethe fame onelic thith lies, Wut if there twere anie fuich cuftonte, J fuppofe thereis none but doth fe bow onint it were, 4Fo2 hatcart be moze buirightfull,thai to commit pong , tweake, amd faultiefte peeres to bts fatth,thich Daoth vattic et ther lobe 03 toith for the death of the pupille Whole hhole familie hath altvaies beene at daitic and neans kings bloun fo fupplie thofe places . Jfo2 at that tinte 40 lie tyarre twith the houfe of the bing that now ise teerelining Jobnikennedte head of the familie, the What defente canbe here by neerenetfe of bloud aw gaint old malice, bruneafurable coucton{neffe, mn kings kinfmanbythe fiffter of Jamesthe firlk; and the headie biolence of (alreabie taften) tyrannte? fhe bucle by bis fathersfioe: James tkennevie al fwas then fo done , becaife there tpanted menofthe fo, bithop offaint Andrews ,a man of moff account tt the--bingdonte oa all kinds of bertue , being booneof the Kings aunt + and Dolvglasalfo, earle of Angus,twith Archembaloearle of Dotwglas,both of the kings bloun ; thereof the laf was in vides anb potyer almost equall to the king, but farbepond Laodics the quence of Cappadocia is (uypofen to baue killed bir otunechilozen,as thep came'to pars of difcretion , aid. to haue bonght the fall conti nuance of bit gouernenient with the bloud of bit fonnes, Wherefore, tf the mother {pated not bir ofvne the tuealth and power ofall others of tthame,, none 50 fleth,for the gaine of Moat authoritie; that totil olu entintes do,inflamedto crueltie with the bpands of Did-euer complaine. to the parlement:, tibert thep coueton{netle(nap rather what ts to be thought that Were put befives the gouernement,and othersnot fo thep will notnm) again hilo, ubidj veferreth ef Neere of hloudappointen therebnto. Motlong aftor, fect of their bope of gouernementy 3fthis example foure tutes {vere appointed to Jantes the third, féemeouer old 02 ob{cure to ante mar, 92 to be ouet hich were not made in refpedt of blonds: but chofen farre fet,# will lap dotune fome nérér home ,. and bpthe bofcesofthe nobilitie. thofe moff notable, Who ts foignozantof this lates Andalthough of late, John uke of Albanie twas tievaane, that he knoweth not that Oaleas Sfortia bpthe nobilitie called out of 3france to the gouern: (grotone to deferetion, a bufband, and fonite in late Ment of Scotland , during the tender pees of Jamesthe fit, and confirmedin the fame by pubs 6o toa moft nightic king) twas flaine by bis onele Los Dotwike D2 to thonvare the calanittics bnknowne; Itke dectee of parlement; vet was itnotgiuen bnte tht followed fo cruell a parricive and kin-flater ¢ bimin refpect of neevenefle of blond. Sore bad A+ Fo2 the moft beautifull countrie of Italie was loyannerbis eloer brother inlife, nhoalthough pers almoft brought thereby'to biter deftradion: the fas baps be was inferio; to the nuke; pet be tuas farre milie of the Sforties, the mother of manic a balls aboue James Panrilton(i all bind of bertue)ebich ant perfon cleane veftroied, andthe barbarous peas Didfomctimes reach after that place. 15utini the abs ple (from thole crueltie ano couetoufnetle nothing' fence of Zamesthe fir, Robert his bucleruled the was fafe) brought into the pleafant places about bingdome. 'Sut by that.right2 las beadmitten therebnto for nevrenefleof bleuds fatenlie.: What thenz Wias be cofen ofthepeaple 2 Pa. oiw ther washe mane Pariethen bing wobett the third teas not fuffictent torule the hingbome,et) tee fo ftrength-of bodic a2 mind, bevim-fabieitnte Robert bis batber as.his neputic,+ commended bis Pabus. Who is he hat is bo2ne tn Wzttaine,that: bath not heard of theocruelticof Wichard (the thirw bing ofthat nante in England)againtt the chtlozert' of his brother 7 1But ntth ahat blouthen was that) inthe end purged? f.0tw,fith there viv. rot (care tonw a . ! Se é Thehiftorie ofScotland. -uengers of the kings death had taken armes a -_gainfE the queene;although the erle of Murreie tere SS bind them)inith mante toords open theininries tdi the Scotith fubiecs baddane vnto thetrqueene,and |