Series 1 > Papal negotiations with Mary Queen of Scots during her reign in Scotland, 1561-1567

254 PAPAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH MARY [1566
before 1567. But the writer may very well have reckoned both Murray
and Morton as ready to take arms during all that time.
The date of the first list may be inferred from the position of the name
of Lord Ruthven. In 1565 Pius iv. had sent him a brief (No. 60, v. ante),
but in 1566 he had been among the foremost of the Rizzio murderers, and
died in the May of that year {Foreign Calendar, No. 386). Mary, however,
pardoned him, and admitted his son William to the title. (The remission
is printed. Hay Fleming, Mary Queen of Scots, Appendix p. 502.) This
William will be the lord who figures fourth in the last class of the second list.
The date of the second list is roughly determined by its references to
Mary’s imprisonment (June 1567), and to Murray, who died January
1570. The absence of the title of regent in the description of Murray,
and the long list of names under those of the Hamiltons, tend to show
that it was before August 1567.
iv. Authorship.—As we may conjecture that the first list {printed below,
on the left) was sent to, or drawn up by, the Bishop of Dunblane in May
1566, so the second list {printed below, on the right) may have been drawn
up by the same envoy during his next embassy abroad in July 1567.
{The titles that run across the page are common to both lists.)
Nobilitas Scotice,
Penes quam est Regni Vis et Potentia.
NOBILITAS CATHOLICA
quae parata est arma sumere pro reglna in quocunque casu.
COMITES
Comes de Lenox.
Comes de Atholia.
Comes de H untie, regni Can-
Comes de Errelle,
Comes de Montrois,
Regni Conestablius.
cellarius, vir potens.
Comes de Botual, Admirandus.
Comes de Errelle, regni Cones-
Comes de Eglinton.
Comes de Catnesia.
Comes de Atholia,
vir potens et prudens.
tabilis.
Comes de Montroiss, vir potens
Passus est nihilominus se seduci
contra partes Reginae, mansil
tamen Calholicus pro Regina
facturus, ut modo putatur,
cum viderit aliquem esse, qui
suas partes tueaiur.
ac prifdens.
Comes de Catnesia.
Comes de Eglinton.
Comes de Cassellis.
Comes de Crafordia.
Comes de Suderlandia.