"Thy blood-shed sooth'd and taught this time, I know,
When curtfoot Bothwell like a limmer lay,
(A traytor try'd, yea, and a tirrant too,)
And unawarrs did wound thee on the way."
(MS. Hist. of the Family of Cockburn of Ormistoun, circa 1722.)
[1022] James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell, succeeded his father, Patrick
third Earl, in September 1556: see page 140. At this time he was in
secret correspondence with the Reformers, and had professed attachment
to their cause; but being gained over by the Queen Dowager, this
spoliation of Cockburn of Ormistoun displayed the insincerity of his
character. The Earl of Arran and Lord James Stewart proceeded with 2000
men "to revenge the said injury, thinking to find the Earl Bothwell in
Creichtoun; but a little before their coming to the said place, he was
depairted," &c.--(Wodrow Miscellany, vol. i. p. 70.)
[1023] Crichton Castle, now in ruins, was formerly a place of
considerable strength, with an interior quadrangle. At this time it
belonged to the Earl of Bothwell. It is situated in the parish of that
name, in the east part of Mid-Lothian, about eleven miles from
Edinburgh.
[1024] The name is left blank in all the MSS.
[1025] In Vautr. edit. "The first departing of."
[1026] In Vautr. edit. "Bannantine;" in MS. G, "Bellenden." Sir John
Bellenden has frequently been mentioned: see pages 358, 400.
[1027] Mr. Gawyn Hamilton: in MS. G. is added, "Abbote of Kilwynning:"
see note 778.
[1028] Vautr. edit. makes this, "of their infants losse." It is the
French phrase, "Les enfans perdus d'une armée," the forlorn hope of
an army.
[1029] Lord Robert Stewart was the natural son of James the Fifth,
by Euphemia Elphinstone. He had a grant of the Abbacy of Holyrood
in 1539, while yet an infant; Alexander Myln, Commendator of
Cambuskenneth, being administrator. He joined the Reformers, and
approved of the Confession of Faith in 1560. In 1569, he exchanged
his Abbacy with Adam Bothwell, Bishop of Orkney, for the
temporalities of that Bishoprick. His lands in Orkney and Zetland
were erected into an Earldom in his favour, 28th October 1581.
[1030] In MS. G, "The Capitain of the Castell." Vautr. edit. is the same
as the text, in omitting these words.
[1031] In MS. G. and Vautr. edit. "victorious souldiours," or "soldiers."
[1032] In the MS. of 1566, "pause."
[1033] Or, "I think you have bought it without money."
[1034] Sir John Maxwell, who afterwards, in his wife's right, as
co-heiress, assumed the title of Lord Herries. See note 769.
[1035] Knox has here mistaken the particular days: Wednesday was the
first, and Monday the sixth of November.
[1036] The persons here named were Ker of Cessfurd, and Ker of
Pharnihurst.
[1037] Monday was the sixth of November: see above, note 1.
[1038] In MS. G, "for keiping;" in Vautr. edit. "keeping."
[1039] In MS. G. and Vautr. edit. "corner."
[1040] In MS. G, "neir."
[1041] The village of Restalrig is situated about half a mile to the
north-east of Holyrood House. It was formerly a place of some
importance, and contained a collegiate Church, founded by King James the
Second, with a Dean, nine prebendaries, and two singing-boys. A portion
of this Church has been restored, and fitted up as a place of worship in
connexion with the Parish Church of South Leith. The _myre_ was no doubt
that low marshy ground, formerly covered with water, which extended to
the precincts, or "the park-dyke," of the Palace and Abbey of Holyrood.
In a lease of the Park of Holyroodhouse, to "John Huntar, burgess of the
Cannogait," a special charge is included "for uphalding and repairing of
our said Park dyke, and casteing and redding of the fowseis about the
medowis," &c.; and also for "the keping of the said Park, the Abbotis
medow, _and groundless myre_ within the same." 20th March
1564-5.--(Register of Signatures, vol. i.)
Sadler and Crofts, in a letter written about the 7th of November 1559,
(vol. i. p. 554,) have given an account of this skirmish, fought at
Restalrig on the previous day, on which occasion the Protestant party,
commanded by the Earl of Arran and Lord James Stewart, were surrounded
in the marshy ground, and their retreat to Edinburgh only accomplished
with a loss of thirty men slain, and forty taken prisoners.
[1042] In Vautr. edit. "parke dich."
[1043] MS. G. omits "awin;" in Vautr. edit. it is, "owne."
[1044] Captain Alexander Halyburton, at page 360, is mentioned by Knox
as the brother of James Halyburton, Provost of Dundee, with whom he is
by some modern writers confounded. He had previously been in the Queen's
service, as in August 1555, he received £75, for his pension of the
Whitsunday term.--(Treasurer's Accounts.) Bishop Lesley, in his account
of this skirmish, which he places about the end of September, says, that
the French troops were "not content to be sieged within the toun" of
Leith; "at last, thay come fordwarte with their hoill forces, purposing
to invayde the toune of Edinburgh; bot the Scottis men come furth of the
toun, albeit out of ordour, and encontered the Frenche men apoun the
croftis besyde the Abbay of Holieruidhous, betuix Leithe and Edinburgh;
quhair the Scottis men war put to flyte, and Capitane Alexander
Halieburton with mony utheris was slayne, and the Frenche men persewit
the chase evin to the poirtis of Edinburgh, and had maid gret slauchter,
war not thair was twa gret cannonis schot furth of the Castell at the
Frenche army, quhilk stayed thame frome forder persuit; so they retered
agane to Leithe."--(History, p. 279.)
[1045] This sentence in MS. G. reads, "And thus with dolour of many, he
ended his dolour within two hours efter the defate, and enter, we doubt
not, in that blissit immortality, quhilk abydes all that beleve in
Christ Jesus trewly." All the later MSS. correspond verbatim with
Vautrollier's edit., which is the same with the text above, except the
latter words, "within two hours after _our departure_."
[1046] The persons here mentioned as having been taken prisoners, were
probably David Monypenny of Pitmilly, or his son David; Andrew Fernie of
Fernie, in the parish of Monimail, the property having afterwards come
by marriage into the family of Arnot; James Stewart, Master of Buchan,
second son of John third Earl of Buchan, (his elder brother John having
been killed at Pinkie in 1547); and George Lovell, a burgess of Dundee.
On the 4th November 1555, George Lovell, burgess of Dundee, and Margaret
Rollok, his wife, had a charter under the Great Seal, of certain acres
of land in the lordship of Dudhope, Forfarshire. On the previous month,
he obtained a letter of legitimation for his bastard son Alexander. In
May 1559, Lovell was fined £40, by the Justice Depute, as security for
Paul Methven, in consequence of his non-appearance at trial.
[1047] In the MS. of 1566, a blank space is left here, and at the end of
the next sentence, as if for the purpose of adding some farther details,
which may explain the apparent want of connexion.
[1048] In MS. G, "schote." Vautr. edit. has "hurte."
[1049] All-hallow even, the last day of October, being the eve of
Hallowmas, of All-Saints.
[1050] William Maitland, the eldest son of Sir Richard Maitland of
Lethington, became Secretary to Queen Mary, in 1561.
[1051] In the orig. MS. "ceased."
[1052] MS. G. adds, "his Sister-son." Vautr. edit. omits these
additional words.
[1053] In MS. G, "have stude;" in Vautr. edit. "wold have stood."
[1054] Wednesday was the 8th of November.
[1055] In the MS. of 1566, "this."
[1056] Verse 8, supplied from MS. G, is omitted in the MS. of 1566, and
in Vautr. edit.
[1057] In MS. G, "forefathers;" in Vautr. edit. "auncient fathers."
[1058] In the MS. of 1566, "Duik" is often written "Duck."
[1059] In MS. G, "it be not so."
[1060] Vautr. edit. makes it, "passed to Comishall."
[1061] See Sadler's Letters and State Papers, vol. i. pp. 601-604, for
the instructions and other matters connected with the mission of William
Maitland of Lethington to London at this time.
[1062] In MS. G, "The End of the Secund Buik:" Vautr. edit. has
"Endeth," &c.
[1063] The words in italics are usually those in the text, quoted for
greater facility in shewing the connexion.--In Buchanan's editions there
are numerous marginal notes. Many of these are literally copied from
Vautrollier's suppressed edition; and of those which the Editor has
added, only such as might be mistaken as Knox's, are here taken notice
of.
[1064] "The godly zeal of M. Hamelton towardes his countrey."
[1065] "Articles out of the Registers."--(Marginal note.)
[1066] "His Articles otherwise more truely collected."--(Marginal note.)
[1067] "Condemned by councelles and Uniuersities, but here is no mention
of the Scripture."--(Marginal note.)
[1068] "Note here that these Articles agree not wyth the Articles in the
Register before mentioned."
[1069] "Wolues in Lambes skinnes."
[1070] "M. Patricke geuen to the secular power."
[1071] "If ye coulde shew to what place of the scripture, we would
gladly heare you."
[1072] "The Vniuersitie of S. Andrewes was founded about the yeare of
our Lord 1416, in the reigne of kyng James the first, who brought into
Scotland, out of other countreyes, 8. Doctors of Diuinitie, and 8.
Doctours of Decrees, wyth diuers other. Hect. Boet. lib. 16. cap. 17."
(Marginal note.)
[1073] "He meaneth Fysher B. of Rochester, who wrote agaynst
Oecolampadius and Luther, and at length was beheaded for treason."
(Marginal note.)
[1074] Mr. John Sinclair, Dean of Restalrig, who became Bishop of
Brechin. See supra, p. 265.
[1075] Evidently the same person named Terrye, in the previous account
of Wallace. See page 548. Pitscottie calls him Sir Hugh Curry.
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8. Instances of accented letters have been changed as follows:
a. Pp. 505 and 506 - macron represented as wh[=e]
b. P. 504 macron represented as ætat[=e]
c. P. 506 macron represented as am[=o]gst
d. Pp. 506 and 566 macron represented as n[=o]ber
e. P. 564 macron represented as Beat[=o]
f. P. 503 macron represented as cal[=e]
g. P. 507 macron represented as Chan[=o]
h. P. 507 macron represented as co[=u]try
i. P. 507 macron represented as cond[=e]nation
j. P. 507 macron represented as c[=o]spiracy
k. P. 564 macron represented as Dr[=o]mond
l. P. xiii macron represented as Joh[=a]nes
m. P. 507 macron represented as l[=o]ger
n. P. xli macron represented as m[=a]
o. P. 505 macron represented as spr[=o]ge