[ [1] “De Regnis Angliæ et Scotiæ conjunctis. Quia Regna Angliæ et Scotiæ, ratione Superioris Dominii, quod in eodem Regno optinemus benedicto altissimo, sunt conjuncta, Mandatum est Justiciariis de Banco, quod Brevia Regis, coram eis porrecta vel retornata, de data dierum et locorum, infra idem Regnum Scotiæ, mentionem facientia, de cætero admittant; exceptiones, si quas, de hujusmodi datis et locis, proponi contigerit coram eis, nullatenus allocantes, Teste Rege apud Berewicum super Twedam, 3 die Julii.” (Fœdera, ii. 533.)
[ [2] These were the Bishops of St. Andrews and Dunkeld, the Abbots of Cupar and Melrose, the Earls of Buchan and March, Sir John de Mowbray, Sir Robert de Kethe, Sir Adam de Gurdon, and Sir John de Inchmartyn.
[ [3] The name, so hated in Scotland, of “Mons. Joh. de Meneteth” appears as one of the Council appointed to assist John de Bretaigne.
[ [4] Ordonnance faite par Edouard Roi d’Angleterre sur le Gouvernement de la terre d’Escosse, Act. Parl. Scot. i. 119; Sir Francis Palgrave’s Documents and Records illustrating the History of Scotland, 292, 295; Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, ii. 457.
[ [5] Mr. Patrick Fraser Tytler very justly remarks how absurd was the idea “that a free country was to be compelled into a pacific matrimonial alliance, amid the groans of its dying citizens and the flames of its seaports” (History of Scotland, vi. 42). See also, on the Scottish policy of Henry VIII., the instructions given to the army in Scotland in April 1544 (vol. v. p. 473, and the Hamilton Papers, vol. ii. p. 325). They were to “burn Edinburgh town, and to rase and deface it when you have sacked it”; and all over the country “man, woman, and child” were to be put to the sword “without exception.”
[ [6] Holinshed, iii. 998.
[ [7] “Terra variabilis communi utriusque gentis vocabulo dicta The Debateable Ground.”
[ [8] Fœdera, xv. 265.
[ [9] “Notwithstanding the ancient alliance of France and Scotland, and the long intercourse of good offices between the two nations, an aversion for the French took its rise, at this time, among the Scots; the effects whereof were deeply felt, and operated powerfully through the subsequent period” (Robertson, i. 110).
[ [10] The Queen of Scots was to “aggre and obleis hir self and hir successouris, that scho, hir Airis and Successouris, sall observe and keip the Fredomes, Liberteis, and Privelegeis of this Realme, and Lawis of the samyn, sicklike and in the samyn maner as hes bene keipit and observit in all Kingis Tymes of Scotland of before” (Keith, App. 14; Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 504).