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).