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1543. J OF CHURCH AND STATE IN SCOTLAND. 81
by a message of theirs to the English ambassador — That they
had entered into a bond to abide firmly together, in order to
serve his Majesty, and praying his Majesty to send them
assistance, especially of money, without which they should
not be able to bear the malice of their enemies. But the
Lord Somerville was apprehended in or about Edinburgh
with his letters, as was the Lord Maxwell, and both shut up
in the Castle of that city ; only the former was soon after
removed to that of Blackness ; and great endeavour was used
by the Governor and Cardinal to get the rest of them into
their hands. But the Lord Maxwell, having made a shift to
escape, he, together with the Earls of Angus, Cassillis, and
Glencairn, Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudon, 1 Sheriff of Ayr,
and James Douglas of Drumlanrig, 2 which two gentlemen
had joined the English Lords sometime before, did again
assemble at Douglas about the 10th of December, where
they concerted measures how to proceed against their ene-
mies, and to do them all the mischief they could devise. By
this time the Earl of Lennox was much weaned from the
French Interest, and had for some time past made suit to
the Earl of Angus for the marriage of his daughter, the
Lady Margaret Douglas, niece by the mother to King Henry.
Nor had his proposal been utterly rejected ; only it seems
that King and the Earl of Angus had found Lennox a little
unstable, and not hearty enough to join their interest. And
the truth is, he liked not to break from France altogether,
so long as he had any expectation from thence ; and also, ex-
cept he had a certainty of being kindly received by England.
But now a fair occasion offered to do him great service that
Mary and Prince Edward, and was zealous for the interest of Henry VIII.
from whom he had a pension of 200 merks. He died in 1549. — E.]
1 [Sir Hugh Campbell of Loudon, father of Sir Matthew Campbell by
his first wife, Lady Elizabeth Stewart, second daughter of Matthew second
Earl of Lennox. This Sir Matthew was the father of Sir Hugh Campbell,
created Lord Campbell of Loudon in 1601. Lord Campbell's only son by
his first wife Margaret, daughter of Sir John Gordon of Lochinvar, was
the father of Margaret, Baroness Loudon in her own right, who in 1620
married Sir John Campbell of Lawers. He was created Earl of Loudon
in 1633, and figures in the eventful history of his time as the notorious
Covenanting Earl. — E.]
2 [James Douglas of Drumlanrig, a powerful Border Baron, was eldest
son of Sir William Douglas of Drumlanrig, and was engaged with Sir
Walter Scott of Branxholm in the attempt to rescue James V. from the
thraldom of the Earl of Angus in 1526. He was knighted by the Regent
Arran, and was ancestor of the Earls and Dukes of Queensberry. — E.]
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