Stuart dynasty

144 TEE STUART DYNASTY.
the field of operation, while in 1719 a handful of
Spaniards were taken prisoners in Glenshiel. But
neither in 1708, 1715, nor 1745 did a French force
land to succour the Jacobites. Dutch troops, on the
other hand, reinforced Argyll's army in 1715.
Francis II. of France and his wife Mary Queen
o' Scots directed, as a result of the surrender at L'eith,
that a Council of Government should he chosen by
Parliament in Edinburgh; and the office of ^Regent
remain in abe} 7 ance, a measure which gave full
power to the reforming party of Knox and the Con-
gregation. One clause in the treaty bound Francis
and Mary to desist from using the arms of England,
and another acknowledged Elizabeth's title as Queen
of England.
Mary's claim to succeed Elizabeth, if the latter
remained childless, was also said to be sacrificed in
this surrender after Leith fell ; but the Scottish
Queen repudiated such a clause altogether, and
never, therefore, ratified the Treaty of Edinburgh.
Cecil had himself been present and contrived the far-
reaching clause which struck at Mary Stuart's future
title.
The whole proceeding may now be traced in the
'Hatfield Calendar,' Part L, of Lord Salisbury's
family papers dealing with the years 1560 and 1561.
On page 246 appears Cecil's statement that the
original articles of the treaty were altered and
enlarged. Also the draft clause providing for the
obliteration and defacement of the English arms
wherever they existed in the realm of France, so