[ [31] Fœdera, xv. 593; Keith, 137.
[ [32] Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 534. The following memorandum, endorsed “the manner how the Scottis be divided, 1560,” was recently found among the MSS. at Longleat, and is now printed in the Hamilton Papers, vol. ii. p. 748. “The names of all the noblemen temporall and spirituall of the congregacion of Scotlande:—The Duke of Chateaurialt; the Erle of Arren his sonne; the Lord James priour of St. Andros; the Erle of Arguile; the Erle of Glencarne; the Erle of Rothos; the Erle of Sutherland; the Erle of Mountithe; the Lorde Riven; the Lorde Boide; the Lorde Offoltrie; the Master of Lindsoye; the Master of Maxwell. The lordes and noblemen newters:—The Erle of Huntleye; the Erle of Catnes; the Erle of Athell; the Erle Marshall; the Erle of Morton and Angus; the Erle of Arrell; the Erle of Casiles; the Erle of Eglenton; the Erle of Mountroes; the Lord Erskin; the Lord Dromond; the Lord Hume; the Lorde Rose; the Lorde Krighton; the Lord Liveston; the Lord Somervall. Dowptfull to whether parte they will incline. The lordes of the Quene’s partye:—The Erle of Bodwell; the Lorde Seton; the Lorde Fleminge; the Lord Semple; the Bishopp of St. Andros; the Priour of Collingham; the Abbot of Holly Roode Howse; with all the bisshoppes and spiritualtye of the realme. The Shires as they be dewided on the one parte and thother:—The Marshe, Tividale, Annerdale, Lowden, Sterlingeshire, Galawaye, Caricke, Guile, Cunningham, Cliddesdale; all these and the people therein are newters, onles a certaine of every shire wich kepe themselfes close. Fife, Angus, Arguile, Straterne, and the Mernes; most parte Protestantes. The northe land hath promised to take parte, but not yet assured; in whose handes standeth litell helpe, wich side so ever they fall into.” In Mr. Fraser Tytler’s History of Scotland, vol. ix. p. 425, a paper is printed entitled “The Present State of the Nobility in Scotland, 1st July 1592.” It gives a list of the Scottish peers with a note of whether they were Protestant or Catholic, and is well worth comparing with the list in the Hamilton Papers. In the original, Mr. Tytler says, the names of the Catholics are marked in Burleigh’s own handwriting.
[ [33] Mr. Froude quotes a letter from Jewel to Peter Martyr:—“It is of the greatest moment that England and Scotland be united; and I trust only those may not hinder it who wish well neither to them nor to us” (History of England, vol. vi. p. 406).
[ [34] Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 605.
[ [35] The Queene’s Majestie’s Answere, declared to Her Counsell, concerninge the Requests of the Lords of Scotlande (Keith, 156).
[ [36] This, however, does not altogether apply to the Darnley marriage. Darnley, as grandson of Margaret Tudor, was not only cousin to the Queen of Scots, but first prince of the blood in England; and Mary’s great object in espousing him was to improve her chance of succeeding to the Crown of England, to which she was already heir-presumptive. But in Scotland the marriage of the queen to a Catholic could not be viewed with indifference; and the General Assembly of the Church proceeded to declare that the laws against papacy applied to the royal family as well as to the subjects: “That the Papisticall and blasphemous masse, with all Papistrie and idolatrie of Paip’s jurisdictione, be universallie suppressed and abolished throughout the haill realme, not only in the subjects, but also in the Q. Majestie’s awn persone” (The Booke of the Universall Kirk of Scotland, p. 28).
[ [37] “Naturallie jonit be blude and habitatioun, of ane relligioun and thairby alike subiect to the malice of the commoun enemy, be quhais Vnioun na les suretie may be expectit to baith thair esteattis then dangear be thair divisioun” (Band anent the Trew Religioun, 31st July 1585; Act. Parl. Scot. iii. 423).
[ [38] Tractatus Fœderis et Arctioris Amititiæ, 5th July 1586 (Fœdera, xv. 803).
[ [39] Mr. Tytler’s view is that one of the chief objects of Elizabeth and the English ministers in entering into the League was to make it easier to deal with the Queen of Scots. “Two months before,” he says, “her indefatigable minister, Walsingham, had detected that famous conspiracy known by the name of ‘Babington’s Plot,’ in which Mary was implicated, and for which she afterwards suffered. It had been resolved by Leicester, Burghley, and Walsingham, and probably by the queen herself, that this should be the last plot of the Scottish queen and the Roman Catholic faction; that the time had come when sufferance was criminal and weak; that the life of the unfortunate, but still active and formidable, captive was inconsistent with Elizabeth’s safety and the liberty of the realm. Hence the importance attached to this League, which bound the two kingdoms together, in a treaty offensive and defensive, for the protection of the Protestant faith, and separated the young king from his mother” (History of Scotland, viii. 288).
[ [40] Calendar of Border Papers, i. 289, 300.