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A.D. 1546. MARIE QUEEN OF SCOTS. 17
This man likewayes embraces this fociotie, wilHnghe; and within a httle
tvme he fo moulded the affe6lions of the garrifone, that they rejedled
Rouch, and gave him both a call and admiffion, by fliaking of hands ; and
by this admiffion he pradlifed the fundlion of miniftrie all his lyftyme after-
ward, wherin he is very famous.
Although the Governor was extremlie difpleafed with this murther, yet
he could not for the prefent take any other courfe, but he fummons the
a6lors and thofe complices to underly the law; and becaus they did not
anfwer, he declared them rebells. In the mean tyme, John Hammiltoune,
abbot of Pafley, the Governor's bafe fone, is prefented to the archbiiliop's
fee of S' Andrews; wherewith the chapter was not pleafed, whoe alreddie
had made choyce of James Beatone, archbifliop of Glafgow.
Now the adlors of this wickednefs being declared rebells, they refolve
to mantain the caftle, out of which (as is faid) they had thruft all that
belonged to the Cardinall ; onlie, they detaine Lord John Hammiltoune,
the Governor's fone, who by accident was there that night, and kept him
prifoner. In end, the Governor rafes a competent force and befieges the
hous, and batters the wals with cannon ; but at the end of three months
(all this tyme being winter) he was forced to diflblve his men, and return
to Edinburgh to keep a parliament, in Februarie, 1547. The hiftorie
fayes that thefe within the caftle, being nowe fried from the feidge, breaks
out, and in a hoftill wav overuns the whole cuntrie, dryves in cattell, and
brings in corns, and with fyre and fword kills and deftroys thofe whome
they efteemed there unfriends. They ravilh women, gives themfelves
over to whordome, drinking, and all forts of licentioufnes.
An Englifli armie at this time is rafed in England, which comes over
the March at Solaway, comes up through Annandaill and Efkdaill, and
deftroys everie thing in there way. Robert Lord Maxwell, the Warden,
reprefents thefe miferies to the Governor; who, by the advyfe of the
counfell, rafes an armie and marched toward Eflcdaill, but encamps by
the way upon Megget water. Heer the Cardinal's friends takes great
This man likewayes embraces this fociotie, wilHnghe; and within a httle
tvme he fo moulded the affe6lions of the garrifone, that they rejedled
Rouch, and gave him both a call and admiffion, by fliaking of hands ; and
by this admiffion he pradlifed the fundlion of miniftrie all his lyftyme after-
ward, wherin he is very famous.
Although the Governor was extremlie difpleafed with this murther, yet
he could not for the prefent take any other courfe, but he fummons the
a6lors and thofe complices to underly the law; and becaus they did not
anfwer, he declared them rebells. In the mean tyme, John Hammiltoune,
abbot of Pafley, the Governor's bafe fone, is prefented to the archbiiliop's
fee of S' Andrews; wherewith the chapter was not pleafed, whoe alreddie
had made choyce of James Beatone, archbifliop of Glafgow.
Now the adlors of this wickednefs being declared rebells, they refolve
to mantain the caftle, out of which (as is faid) they had thruft all that
belonged to the Cardinall ; onlie, they detaine Lord John Hammiltoune,
the Governor's fone, who by accident was there that night, and kept him
prifoner. In end, the Governor rafes a competent force and befieges the
hous, and batters the wals with cannon ; but at the end of three months
(all this tyme being winter) he was forced to diflblve his men, and return
to Edinburgh to keep a parliament, in Februarie, 1547. The hiftorie
fayes that thefe within the caftle, being nowe fried from the feidge, breaks
out, and in a hoftill wav overuns the whole cuntrie, dryves in cattell, and
brings in corns, and with fyre and fword kills and deftroys thofe whome
they efteemed there unfriends. They ravilh women, gives themfelves
over to whordome, drinking, and all forts of licentioufnes.
An Englifli armie at this time is rafed in England, which comes over
the March at Solaway, comes up through Annandaill and Efkdaill, and
deftroys everie thing in there way. Robert Lord Maxwell, the Warden,
reprefents thefe miferies to the Governor; who, by the advyfe of the
counfell, rafes an armie and marched toward Eflcdaill, but encamps by
the way upon Megget water. Heer the Cardinal's friends takes great
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