Lords--Boyd, Seton, Sinclair, Semple, Oliphant, Ogilvie, Rosse-Hacat,
Carlisle, Herries, Hume, and Innermeith.
[This note is appended to Cecil's copy of the bond. It should be
noted that Murray was not in Scotland at the time, and that his
name does not appear in a copy of the bond in the Scots College at
Paris, for which we have the authority of Sir James Balfour.]
_THE QUEEN CAPTURED_
1567.--May. Mary on her Capture. Instructions to the Bishop of Dunblane
for the French Court.
_Keith's History_, vol. ii. p. 592.
In our returning he awaited us by the way, accompanied with a great
force, and led us with all diligence to Dunbar.... And when he saw us
like to reject all his suit and offers, in the end he showed us how far
he was proceeded with our whole nobility and principals of our estates,
and what they had promised him under their handwrites.... In the end,
when we saw no esperance to be rid of him, never man in Scotland once
making an attempt to procure our deliverance, ... so ceased he never
till by persuasions and importune suit, accompanied not the less with
force, he has finally driven us to end the work begun at such time and
in such form as he thought might best serve his turn, wherein we cannot
dissemble that he has used us otherwise than we would have wished, or
yet have deserved at his hand.
_Diurnal of Occurrents in Scotland._
And upon the twenty-fourth day of April, which was Saint Mark's even,
our sovereign lady being riding from Stirling, whereto she passed a
little of before to visit her son, as said is, to Edinburgh, James, Earl
of Bothwell, accompanied with seven or eight hundred men and friends,
whom he caused believe that he would ride upon the thieves of
Liddesdale, met our sovereign lady betwix Kirkliston and Edinburgh, at a
place called the Bridges, accompanied with a few number, and there took
her person to the castle of Dunbar.
_BOTHWELL AND MARY AT DUNBAR_
_Guzman de Silva to the King, from London._ May 3, 1567.
_Spanish State Papers._
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