Series 3 > Scottish correspondence of Mary of Lorraine

MARY OF LORRAINE
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bund and actit in the bukis of counsale 1 that he suld at
hir gracis command depart out of this realm to the partis
of France 2 induring hir grace will, and fand cautioun and
souirteis apone the samen, afoir the first day of Aprile nix
to cum, that the quenis [grace] of hir gudnes licentis be
ther presentis the said erll to remane within this realme
unto the xx day of Aprile nix to cum, providing alwayis
that he depart betuix this and the said xx day of the said
moneth, as is now contractit to the first day of the samen :
at [?and] that this, hir grace licence, salbe na hurt nor
prejudice to the first contract bot that the samen sail
stand in full effect at the said xx day as at the first day
of the said moneth in all pointis conformand his cautioneris:
and attour, gif it beis fund be the quenis grace and hir
counsale that this xx dayis licence be hirt or prejudic to
the said contract or the cautioneris fand in that cais, the
said erll be ther presentis bindis and oblissis him to the
quenis grace regent foirsaid that he sail upon hir grace
charge upon xlviij houris warnyng enter him self in ward
with in the portis of the toun of Edinburgh, ther to remane
ay and quhill the said erll mak hir grace als sure of his
departing and remanyng in France3 be the forsaid
cautioneris or utheris in ther place that hir grace salbe
content with, as hir grace was afoir this licence geving :
and the said erll sail do the samen under the pane of
tinsale of his heritage of landis. In witnes of the quhilk
the quenis grace 4 and the said erll hes subscrivit this
1 At Edinburgh, 31st January 1554-5. The cautioners were Angus, Argyle,
Glencairn, Morton, Athol, Sutherland, Ruthven, Fleming and Campbell of
Loudoun. (Register of Deeds, i. 67, 68.)
2 On nth February it had been reported in England through spies that ‘ the
Earl of Huntley is sent into France to serve the French King there.’ (Addenda,
437.)
3 In the end the sentence of banishment was remitted. Huntly was restored
to his office, but the real power remained with the Vice-Chancellor, a Frenchman,
de Roubay. (Leslie, 252.) The Diurnal of Occurrents states that he was
liberated on the payment of great sums of money : he was also divested of his
tacks and interest in the earldoms of Orkney and Moray. (Diurnal, 52 ; Books
of Sederunt, i. f. 80, 83.)
4 As the Queen’s signature is awanting, this may be a draft, subscribed by