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[50] Knox, p 292

[51] Keith, p 192

[52] It is worth while attending to the very partial and grossly perverted account which Knox gives of this procla into his History an edition of it, fabricated by hiistrates for yielding to ”_Jezabel's_” commands, and remarks, in allusion to a counter proclamation which the Queen issued, that the town should be patent to all her lieges until they were found guilty of soreater boldness than she and Balaa priests durst have attempted before And so murderers, adulterers, thieves, whores, drunkards, idolaters, and all s, under colour that they were of her religion And so got the Devil freedoht upon the coe!”--Knox, p 292-3

[53] Randolph in Keith, p 210

[54] Goodall, vol i p 199, et seq

[55] Freebairn's translation of Bois Guilbert, p 32, et seq--Knox's History, p 307--Chalmers, vol i p 62, and vol ii p 212--Keith, p

215 and 216--and Goodall, vol i p 191

[56] Knox, p 302--Chalmers, vol ii p 425

[57] Chalmers, vol i p 78; vol ii p 293, et seq; and p 426, et seq

[58] Knox, p 315; Goodall, vol i p 192--Chalilvy, but only Jailvy of Findlater But as he does not give any authority for this assertion, we have preferred following Knox, Goodall, and Robertson

[59] Chalmers, vol i p 80; and vol ii p 298

[60] Keith, p 225

[61] Keith, p 226

[62] Chalmers, vol i p 84, and vol ii p 302

[63] Chalmers, vol ii p 306

[64] Chalmers, vol i p 90

[65] ”The ti this horrid deed,” says Robertson, ”were frequently appointed; but the executing of it onderfully prevented by some of those unforeseen accidents which so often occur to disconcert the schemes, and to intiely inconsistent between this statement, and that which Robertson makes immediately afterwards in a note, where he says,--”We have imputed the violent conduct of the Earl of Huntly to a sudden start of resent him with any premeditated purpose of rebellion” And that Huntly did not intend to seize the Queen and her rounds:--”1st, On the Queen's arrival in the North, he laboured in good earnest to gain her favour, and to obtain a pardon for his son--2d, He met the Queen, first at Aberdeen and then at Rothiemay, whither he would not have ventured to come had he harboured any such treasonable resolution--3d, His conduct was irresolute and wavering, like that of a er, not like one executing a concerted plan--4th, The most considerable persons of his clan submitted to the Queen, and found surety to obey her commands; had the Earl been previously deterainst the Queen, or to seize her ministers, it is probable he would have imparted it to his principal followers, nor would they have deserted him in this manner,” Yet in direct opposition to this view of the s, throws upon him the whole blame, and entirely exculpates Murray--Robertson, vol i p 222, et seq

[66] Chalmers, vol i p 93, and vol ii p 306

[67] Keith, p 226

[68] Chalmers, vol ii p 307

[69] Knox, p 320--Buchanan's History, Book xvii--Chalmers, vol i p

95, and vol ii p 309, whose authority is a letter of Randolph, preserved in the Paper Office, and written the evening of the very day on which the battle took place Randolph, though not on the field himself, had two servants there, and saw the dead body of the Earl, when it was brought into Aberdeen Robertson and others have said, that Huntly, as very corpulent, was slain on the field, or trodden to death in the pursuit Chalmers, however, has truth on his side, when he remarks, that ”Doctor Robertson, who never saw those instructive letters (of Randolph), grossly misrepresents the whole circumstances of that affair at Corrachie; he says, 'Huntly advanced with a considerable force towards Aberdeen, and filled the Queen's _small court_ with the _utmost consternation_; and that Murray had only a handful of e and prudent conduct, gained aonly a _handful of men_, he quotes Keith, p

230, in which there is not one word of the _force_ at Corrachie on either side The force there spoken of is what the Queen had about her _two ress into the North, not on her return to Aberdeen, after new troops had been raised, and old ones summoned to that premeditated and barbarous scene” Knox is also a better authority upon this subject than Robertson He gives the following curious account of the Earl's death and subsequent fate:--”The Earl, i, departed this life, without any wound, or yet appearance of any stroke, whereof death ht have ensued; and so, because it was late, he was cast over athwart a pair of creels, and so was carried to Aberdeen, and was laid in the tolbooth thereof, that the response which his wife's witches had given ht be fulfilled, who all affirht he should be in the tolbooth of Aberdeen, without any wound upon his body When his lady got knowledge thereof, she blamed her principal witch, called Janet; but she stoutly defended herself (as the Devil can ever do), and affirave a true answer, albeit she spoke not all the truth; for she knew that he should be there dead” Knox, p 328 ”It is a memorable fact,” Chalmers elsewhere remarks, ”that Huntly and Sutherland” (as forfeited soon afterwards, as implicated in this pretended rebellion) ”were two of those nobles who had sent Bishop Lesley to France, with offers of duty and services to the Queen, while Murray, Maitland, and other considerable men offered their duties and services to Elizabeth”

[70] Randolph in Keith, p 230

[71] Little did Mary then dreaay

[72] In Buchanan's _Cameleon_, a severe satire, written at the request of his patron the Earl of Murray, when that noble ridiculous account of the secret motives which led to this disastrous northern expedition ”The Queen, by advice of her uncles, devised to destroy the Earl of Murray, thinking hireat bridle to refrain her appetites, and impediment to live at liberty of her pleasure; not that he ever used any violence anent her, but that his honesty was so great that she was asha indecent in his presence She, then, being deliberate to destroy him, by the Earl of Huntly, went to the north and he in her company; and howbeit the treason was opened plainly, and John Gordon lying not far off the town (Aberdeen) with a great power, and the Earl of Murray expressly lodged in a house separate froht,--this Cameleon (Maitland) whether for sie, I refer to every man's conscience that doth know hier, and could never believe that the Earl of Huntly would take on hand such an enterprise” This stateives some notion of the dependence to be placed on Buchanan's accuracy when influenced by party feelings, betrays, at the same time, the important secret, that Maitland saw and felt the injustice of Huntly's persecution--Buchanan's Cameleon, p 9