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

72 THE HISTORY OF THE AFFAIRS [1543.
clandestinely with the Lords, his associates, to convey the
young Queen into England. But though the Earl of Glen-
cairn was ready enough to offer his service in that point,
yet her Majesty was so well looked after, that that project
was very quickly let fall ; as was likewise another of con-
veying Cardinal Beaton into England, which last the Governor
would by no means consent unto. This determinateness in the
Nobility and gentry of our kingdom, made the Kingof England
give up several things which he had laid down as a plan of the
marriage betwixt his son and our Queen ; so that he was at
last content to nominate commissioners to meet with the com-
missioners from Scotland, in order to draw up two treaties
of peace and marriage, according to the terms which the
Parliament of Scotland could be brought to condescend
unto. The commissioners on the part of England were
Lord Audley, the Chancellor ; x Duke of Norfolk, Treasurer ; 2
the Bishops of Winchester and Westminster; 3 the Lord St
John, Chamberlain; and Sir John Gage, Comptroller of the
King's household. Those on the part of Scotland were the
Earl of Glencairn and Sir George Douglas, in conjunction
with the other three ambassadors that were already in
England. The treaties were agreed upon, and signed by
the commissioners on both sides at Greenwich, the 1st clay
of July 1543 ; 4 after which time, two months were allowed
for ratification of the same by the King of England, and by
the Governor of Scotland, by and with the approbation and
authority of the Parliament of this kingdom.
In the treaty of peace, which was to continue during the
joint lives of the two sovereigns, and one year after the de-
mise of the first, though the King of England had laboured
hard to have the ancient leagues betwixt France and Scot-
land annulled, and the two kingdoms in Britain to befriends
to friends, and enemies to enemies, as the language at that
time was ; yet the article agreed upon concerning that
affair contained no more, but that neither kingdom should
1 [Sir Thomas Audley, Knight, created Lord Audley in 1538, ceased to
Ik- Lord Chancellor of England in 1538, and was succeeded in that high
office by Bishop Goodrich of Ely. Beatson's " Political Index," vol. i.
p. ?,■>!.— E.]
2 | Thomas third Duke of Norfolk. See the note, p. 47.— E.]
:) | Stephen Gardiner, Bishop of Westminster, and Thomas Thirlebv, first
and only Bishop of Westminster, translated to Norwich— E.]
4 Seecopiesof these treaties in the second volume of " Epist. Beg. Scot."