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SETTLED IN THE GOVERNMENT, 1525. 215
voked the kiug, her son, to throw Stewart into prison for a time, 1 and brought
down from Cardinal Wolsey a scathing letter of rebuke. 2
At the close of the Parliament of February 1525, Angus was all-powerful
in the council of regents, although the Archbishop of St. Andrews held the
Great Seal as Chancellor, and represented the ecclesiastical side of that
council. The queen appeared conciliatory, and peace and safety were so
far restored that she and the king travelled fearlessly about the country.
Thus they were at Perth when the English ambassador, Magnus, on 21st
March, arrived from the south, instructed to seek redress for disorders on
the borders, and bearing messages from Henry to James and his mother. 3
Magnus found the Chancellor and Angus together at Dunfermline, on the eve
of setting out for Edinburgh to take measures for repressing the irregularities
of the borderers which the unsettled state of the Government in Scotland,
and some laxity on the part of the English wardens, had encouraged. Angus
1 State Papers, Henry VIII., vol. iv. pp. and torments, and the good advancement of
490, 491. Information could not have all other affairs between her and Albany,
reached Queen Margaret before the 23d of She hopes it may please God to enable her
March 1527-S, and she had married Stewart repay the money and all his kindnesses to her,
before the 2d of April. On the former date and wishes him to write to thank the Abbot
she wrote from Stirling to Albany, telling of Culross for his services, undertaken out of
him she had received a letter, dated the last love to Albany, and at his desire. [Teulet's
of January, from the abbot of Culross, his Papiers d'Etat, vol. i. pp. 73-75.]
servant and hers, mentioning Albany's great 2 Letters and Papers, etc., Henry viii.,
diligence with the Pope and Cardinals in vol. iv. No. 4131. The conduct of Angus in
reference to the divorce, as well as in furnish- regard of this divorce, which he does not
ing money for its furtherance. She thanks appear to have acknowledged, stands out in
him a hundred thousand times, and tells him marked contrast to that of the queen, for
that she has more confidence in him than iu though she survived as the wife of Henry
any other man in the world, save her own Stewart for nearly fourteen years after the
son. She begs him to hasten it to a conclu- divorce, the Earl did not again marry until
sion, let her know the result speedily, furnish after her death.
the money which would be required, alike for 3 State Papers, Henry viii., vol. iv. pp. 347,
the love of her and ending of all her troubles 358.