THE HISTORY O F SCOTLAND DURING THE REIGNS OF QUEEN MARY and of KING JAMES VI. TILL His ACCESSION to the CROWN of ENGLAND. WITH A REVIEW of the SCOTTISH HISTORY previous to that Period; IN TWO VOLUMES. By WILLIAM ROBERTSON, D.D. PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, AND VOLUME II. - THE FOURTEENTH EDITION, LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND. THE HISTORY O F SCOTLAND. T BOOK VI. HE unexpected blow, by which the re- в O OK gent was cut off, ftruck the king's party VI. Disorders ed by the with the utmoft confternation. Eliza- 1570. beth bewailed his death as the most fatal difafter occafionwhich could have befallen her kingdom; and was regent's inconfolable to a degree that little fuited her dig- death. nity. Mary's adherents exulted, as if now her restoration were not only certain, but near at hand. The infamy of the crime naturally fell on those who expreffed fuch indecent joy at the commiffion of it; and as the affaffin made his efcape on a horfe which belonged to lord Claud Hamilton, and fled directly to Hamilton, where he was received in triumph, it was concluded that the regent had fallen a facrifice to the refentment of the queen's party, rather than to the revenge of a private man. On the day after the B murder, VOL. II. |