Spottiswoode Society > History of the affairs of the Church and State of Scotland from the beginning of the reformation to the year 1568 > Volume 1

1543.] OF CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. 71
Lords shall be keepers of the Queen, or any two of them,
quarterly ; and that one Nobleman be added to these Lords,
by the Lord Governor, at his pleasure. Afterwards, the
forfeitures of the Earl of Angus and Sir George Douglas his
brother were reversed ; and then the Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 17th of March, 1 after that the Lords of the
Articles had been empowei^ed to make laws for the general
benefit of the kingdom, but with a restriction not to meddle
with affairs of the Church, nor privileges of the same.
The day after, being Sunday, Sir Ralph Sadler, ambas-
sador from King Henry, arrived at Edinburgh, with letters
to the Earl of Arran, and a commission to act in concert
with the Noblemen before mentioned, in the affair of the
marriage of the young Queen, and to tender his advice, ac-
cording as it should be required, to the Governor and Coun-
cil. The Governor received this ambassador very kindly,
and gave him assurance that the King his master had his
heart above all other princes, and that he should have him
at command in all things reasonable, saving still his duty
and allegiance to his Sovereign Lady and the realm. This
qualification of his service to the King of England, the
Governor, like a man of honour, did ever afterwards reiterate,
even when King Henry, in order to break his steadiness
in that point, instructed his ambassador to make him smell
the danger of a war on one hand, and on the other did
allure him by the offer of his own daughter, the Lady
Elizabeth, in marriage to his son, the Lord Hamilton ; and
at another time, by the offer of his assistance to make him
King of all Scotland beyond the river Forth, in case the con-
trary party should seize the person of the young Queen.
The ambassador began soon to perceive that it was in vain
for him to expect any further success in his negociation here
than simply a treaty of peace and marriage, without the
surrender of the young Queen, the government, or forts of
the realm ; which, when the King of England was advertised
of, he sent private instructions to his ambassador to labour
Lord Livingstone, John fifth Lord Lindsay of Byres, and Sir James Sandi-
lands of Calder, father of the first Lord Torphicheu. — E.]
1 So it may lie gathered from Mr Sadler's letters, but in the Registers
there appears to be no Parliament-day after the 15th of March. — [The
Parliament was prorogued on the 19th of March by order of the Regent
Arran.— Acta Pari. Scot, folio, vol. ii. p. 425.— -E.]