[ [11] “Le servir, obeyr et honnorer, durant et constant ledit mariage, ensemble l’hoir issu et procréé d’iceluy mariage auquel adviendra le Royaume d’Escosse, tout ainsy comme nous et nos Predecesseurs aut loyauement servy et honnore les nobles progeniteurs et antecesseurs de la ditte Dame Reyne d’Escosse nostre Souveraine” (Keith, App. 20). On the occasion of the marriage, Henry of France issued letters of naturalisation conferring all the privileges of French citizenship on Scotsmen living in his dominions; and the Scottish Parliament returned the compliment by passing an Act which naturalised Frenchmen in Scotland. (Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 507, 515.)
[ [12] Address to the Council, in Mr. Froude’s History of England, vol. vi. p. 111 (ed. 1870).
[ [13] The plenipotentiaries for Scotland at Cambray were the Cardinal of Lorraine; the Duke of Montmorency; Jacques d’Albon, Marshal of France; Morvillier, Bishop of Orleans; and Claude de l’Aubespine, Secretary of State.
[ [14] “A pleasant country village on the north side of the river Tweed, within the borders of Scotland, five miles west from Berwick” (Keith, 108).
[ [15] “This treaty was finished and drawn up at the Church of Our Lady of Upsalinton the 31st of May (1559), and duplicates thereof were delivered and exchanged in the Parish Church of Norham, just opposite, on the English side of the Tweed, that same day” (Ibid.).
[ [16] They told her, “That, by her tolerance, their religion had taken such a root, and the number of the Protestants so increased, that it was a vain hope to believe that they could be put from their religion, seeing they were resolved as soon to part with their lives as to recant” (Sir James Melvil’s Memoirs, p. 25).
[ [17] His father, the second Earl of Arran, and first Duke of Chatelherault, was, it will be remembered, Regent of Scotland from the death of James the Fifth, in 1542, until 1554, when he was succeeded by Mary of Guise. He was a Lord of the Congregation.
[ [18] Mr. Froude’s History of England, vol. vi. pp. 236, 237: “You,” said an emissary of the Congregation at Paris to Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, “have a queen, and we our prince the Earl of Arran, marriageable both, and chief upholders of God’s religion. This may be the means to unite England and Scotland together, and there is no foundation nor league durable nor available but in God’s cause.”
[ [19] “If the Queen shall be unwilling to this, as it is likely she will, in respect of the greedy and tyrannous Affliction of France; then is it apparent that Almighty God is pleased to transfer from her the Rule of the Kingdom for the weal of it; and in this time great Circumspection is to be used, to avoid the deceits and trumperies of the French. And then may the Realm of Scotland consider, being once made free, what means may be devised through God’s goodness to accord the two Realms, to endure for time to come at the Pleasure of Almighty God, in whose Hands the Hearts of all Princes be” (Memorial of Certain Points meet for the Restoring of the Realm of Scotland to the Ancient Weale, written by my Lord Treasurer, with his own Hand, 5 August 1559, Cotton MSS., Keith, App. 23).
[ [20] A Short Discussion of the Weighty Matter of Scotland, August 1559. Cotton MSS., Keith, App. 24.