[1160] At the time of Queen Mary's renunciation of the Crown, the Earl of Murray was in France. After his return to Edinburgh, the 11th August, he had an interview with the Queen at Lochleven. He was solemnly inaugurated as Regent in the Council Chamber of the Tolbooth, or Parliament House, and publicly proclaimed at the Cross of Edinburgh, 22d August 1567.
Transcriber's note:
1. There are several asterisks in the text, for example: "bene some quhat hard,* yet". These refer to sidenotes on those pages.
2. There are multiple instances of different spellings for the same word (example: Huntley and Huntlye), as well as inconsistent hyphenation and punctuation. Those have been retained. Obvious typos have been corrected.
3. Quote (") marks have been retained as in the original.
4. Page 78: The transcriber inserted the missing anchor for footnote 180: "That is, the year 1558-9."
5. Page 114: "perfythe" is unclear.
6. Page 242: Cor. 14:29 The transcriber has added 1 to make it read 1 Cor. as the context would indicate.