Church of Scotland; Knox, John, approximately 1514-1572; Reformation -- Scotland; Theology -- Early works to 1800
[353] The Seigneur D'Oysel: See notes in vol. i. pp. 328 and 355. Lord
Clinton, in a letter to the Earl of Sussex, 8th August 1560, mentions
that D'Oysel and Martigues, having 3500 French soldiers in their
company, had then landed at Calais, on their return from Scotland.
Queen Mary had purposed sending him again to Scotland in the spring of
1561. From letters of the time we learn he was not expected to reach
Greenwich before the 8th of July, and Cecil on the 25th of that month
says, "Monser d'Oyzell came from the Scottish Quene, with request that
the Quene his Mistress might have a salve conduct to pass alongst our
sea coast, and hymself to pass into Scotland to provide for her
coming. Many reasons moved us to myslike her passadge, but this only
served us for answer," &c., namely, her refusal to ratify the Treaty
of Peace. It is added, "Monser d'Oyzell was also gently required to
returne with this answer." (Wright's Queen Elizabeth, vol. i. pp. 43,
62, 66.) Mr. Tytler has shown, that D'Oysel "was altogether unworthy
of the trust reposed in him," by his secret communications both to the
English Ambassador and Queen Elizabeth. (Hist. vol. vi. p. 228.)
[Sidenote: THE ARMYS OF INGLAND WER USURPIT.]
I answered, "That I was nocht desyrous to fall in the discours how
those hard termes first beganne, nor by quhat meanys thai wer
nurischit; becaus thairin I most charge some partie with injurie, and
perrel offered to the Quene my maistres, quhilk wes the verray ground
of those materis: Bot I wes weill assured thair culd be no better
occasioun offered to put the formar unkyndnes in forgetfulnes, than by
ratifyeing the Treatie of Peace, for that suld repay all injureis
past. And Madame, (quod I,) quhair it plesis yow to suspend the
Ratificatioun, untill yow haif the advyses of the Nobles and Estatis
of youre Realme, the Quene my maistres dois nothing doubt of thair
conformitie in this mater, becaus the Treatie wes maid by thair
consentis."
[Sidenote: YOUR PAPISTIS AND OURIS HAIF PRACTISIT, AND STILL PRACTISIS
DEVISIOUN.]
[Sidenote: SA THAT SCHO MYCHT HAIF INGLAND AND THE PAIPIS RELIGIOUN, I
THINK SCHO LYET NOT.]
The Quene answered, "Yea, by some of thame, but not by all. It will
appeir, quhen I cum amangis thame, quhidder thai be of the same mynd
that yow say thai wer than of, [or no:] Bot of this I assure yow,
Monsieur l'Ambassadour, (quod scho,) I, for my parte, am verray
desyrouse to haif the perfite and the assured amitie of the Quene, my
gude-sister, and will use all the meanis I can to geve hir occasioun
to think that I meane it in deid."
I answered, "Madame, the Quene my maistres, yow may be assurit, will
use the lyik towardis yow, to move yow to be of the same opinioun
towardis hir."
[Sidenote: THE FEIR OF GOD IN THE HERT OF HELIAS WAS DISOBEDIENCE TO
CURSIT JESABELL.]
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