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1543.] OF CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. 77
have received the Cardinal's submission ; but whatever the
matter or the management was, that Prelate did not so much
as stir out of his castle to wait on the Governor, who there-
upon caused him be denounced rebel in the town of St An-
drews, and then returned to Edinburgh, with an intention,
as he said, to levy forces, and compel the Cardinal into a
submission. All this the English ambassador seems firmly
to have believed as genuine truth. But the wonderful change,
as that gentleman words it, which soon after followed,
would even seem to render suspected that journey of the
Governor ; and that the hand of the wily Cardinal had been
deeply engaged in the whole affair. Whether, therefore,
some open threatenings to depose the Governor from his office,
or a secret suggestion, that by adhering to England he might
endanger his title not only to the regal succession, but to his
own paternal estate, both which were supported only by the
Pope's authority ; or whether it was some other separate
views or influence made use of by the Cardinal that weighed
most with the Governor, is not necessary here to be deter-
mined ; but one thing is certain, that within eight days after
he had confirmed the treaties with England, having received
a message from the Cardinal by the hands of Sir John
Campbell of Lundy and the Abbot of Pittenweem, he left
Edinburgh that same day in the evening, being Monday the
3d of September, under a pretext of visiting his lady in the
castle of Blackness, who, as he said, laboured of child ; and
next day he went to Calendar, 1 where the Cardinal and Earl
of Moray met him, and after some secret communication
together they all three rode forward to Stirling. And ever
after the Governor remained addicted to the Cardinal, albeit
sometimes he wavered, at least to outward appearance, be-
cause, as he said — " Though he would do as much as in him
was to observe the treaties, yet more than he might he
could not do."
The English ambassador, after this revolt, as he calls it,
of the Governor from his master's service, seems to have
given over all hopes of succeeding in his negociation here ;
as indeed he might well have done, considering the general
1 The seat of the Lord Livingston, near to the town of Falkirk.—
[Afterwards the seat of his descendants, the Earls of Linlithgow and
Calloudar. — E.]