Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587; Queens -- Scotland -- Biography; Scotland -- History -- Mary Stuart, 1542-1567
She aunswered y{t} there was no recept against feare.
I aunswered y{t} mye L. had no feare for anie thinge he knewe in him
sellf, but onelye of the colde and vnkinde Wordes she had spoken to hys
servant.
She aunswered and said y{t} he woulde not be a fraide in case he were not
culpable.
I aunswered y{t} I knewe so farr of hys Lordsh. y{t} he desired nothing
more than y{t} the secretts vf everye creatures harte were writtē in
theire face.
She asked me yf I had anie farder com̃ission.
I aunswered no.
Then she com̃aunded me to holde mye peace.
The Wordes y{t} I rememb{r} were betwixt the Kinge and the Q. in
Glasco when she took him awaie to Edinbrowghe.
The Kinge for y{t} mye L. hys father was then absent and sicke, bye reason
whereof he could not speke w{th} him him sellfe, called me vnto him and
theise wordes that had then passed betwixt him and the Quene, he gaue me
in remembraunce to reporte vnto the said mye Lord hys father.
After theire metinge and shorte speking to geth{r} she asked him of his
lr̃es, wherein he complained of the cruelltye of som.
He aunswered y{t} he complained not w{th}owt cause and as he beleved, she
woulde graunte her sellfe when she was well advised.
She asked him of hys sicknesse, he answered y{t} she was the cause
thereof, and moreover he saide, Ye asked me What I ment bye the crueltye
specified in mye lr̃es, yt procedeth of yo{w} onelye y{t} wille not
accepte mye offres and repentaunce, I confesse y{t} I haue failed in som
thingᕦ, and yet greater fautes haue bin made to yo{w} sundrye times,
w{ch} ye haue forgiuē. I am but yonge, and ye will saye ye haue forgiuē me
diverse tymes. Maye not a man of mye age for lacke of Counselle, of w{ch}
I am verye destitute falle twise or thrise, and yet repent and be
chastised bye experience? Yf I haue made anye faile y{t} ye but thinke a
faile, howe so ever it be, I crave yo{r} ᵱdone and protest y{t} I shall
never faile againe. I desire no oth{r} thinge but y{t} we maye be to
geath{r} as husband and wife. And yf ye will not consent hereto, I desire
never to rise forthe of thys bed. Therefore I praye yo{w} give me an
aunswer here vnto. God knowethe howe I am punished for makinge mye god of
yo{w} and for having no oth{r} thowght but on yo{w}. And yf at anie tyme I
offend yo{w}, ye are the cause, for y{t} whẽ anie offendethe me, if for
mye refuge I might open mye minde to yo{w}, I woulde speak to no other,
but whē anie thinge ys spokē to me, and ye and I not beinge as husband and
wife owght to be, necessite compelleth me to kepe it in my breste and
bringethe me in suche melancolye as ye see me in.
She aunswered y{t} it semed him she was sorye for hys sicknesse, and she
woulde finde remedye therefore so sone as she might.
She asked him Whye he woulde haue passed awaye in Thenglishe shipp.
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