[112] Keith, p. 331. [113] Melville's Memoirs, p. 147. [114] Conæus in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 25. [115] Dr Stuart, in support of his statements on this subject, quotes, in addition to the authorities already mentioned, Mezeray "Histoire de France," tome 3, and Thuanus, "Historia sui Temporis," lib. xxxvii. But we suspect he has done so at random; for, on referring to these works, we have been unable to discover any thing which bears upon the matter. Chalmers, who is in general acute and explicit enough, says, that these ambassadors came "to advise the Queen not to pardon the expatriated nobles;" vol. ii. p. 158. Laing, who writes with so much _apparent_ candour and _real_ ability against Mary that he almost makes "the worse appear the better reason," has avoided falling into the gross error of Robertson. "It would be unjust," he says, "to suppose, that, upon acceding to the Holy League, for the preservation of the Catholic faith, she was apprised of the full extent of the design to exterminate the Protestants by a general massacre throughout Christendom; but the instructions from her uncle rendered her inexorable towards the banished Lords."--Laing's Preliminary Dissertation to the History of Scotland, vol. i. p. 9. [116] Keith, p. 328 and 329. [117] Goodall, vol. i. p. 222. [118] Several of these pennies, as they were called, both of gold and silver, remain to this day; and some of them have been already noticed. In December 1565, there was stamped a silver penny, called the _Mary Rial_, bearing on one side a tree, with the motto, _Dat gloria vires_; and the circumscription, _Exsurgat Deus, et dissipentur inimici ejus_; and, on the other, _Maria et Henricus, Dei Gratia, Regina et Rex Scotorum_. Speaking of this coin, Keith says, that "the famous ewe-tree of Crookston, the inheritance of the family of Darnley, in the parish of Paisley, is made the reverse of this new coin; and the inscription about the tree, _Dat gloria vires_, is no doubt with a view to reflect honour on the Lennox family. This tree, he adds, which stands to this day, is of so large a trunk, and so well spread in its branches, that it is seen at several miles distance."--Keith, p. 327, and Appendix, p. 118.--It stands no longer. [119] Buchanan's History.--Melville's Memoirs.--Keith, p. 325. [120] Goodall, vol. i. p. 227. [121] Melville's Memoirs, p. 132 and 133. [122] We translate from the original French of an edition, of the _Martyre de la Royne d'Escosse_, printed at Antwerp, in the year 1583,--which very nearly agrees with the Edition in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 202.