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The History of Scotland, During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI
The History of Scotland During the Reigns of Queen Mary and of King James VI Author:William Robertson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1771 Subjects: Art / General Art / Conceptual Art / History / General History / Europe / Great Britain Travel / Europe / Great Britain Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When y... more »ou buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Book VI. profecution. But the injury he intended made a deep impreflion j £ on their minds, and drew on him fevere vengeance. 1577. Nor was he more fuccefsful in an attempt, which he made, to load Lord Claud Hamilton with the guilt of having formed a con- fpiracy againft his life. Though thofe, who were fuppofed to be his accomplices, werefeized, and tortured, no evidence of any thing criminal appeared; but, on the contrary, many circumftances dif- covered his innocence, as well as the Regent's fecret views, in imputing to him fuch an odious defign f. They turn The Scottiih nobles, who were almoft equal to their Monarchs their eyes i-n- ir towards the in power, and treated by them with much diftmchon, obierved thefe arbitrary proceedings of a Regent, with the utmoft indignation. The people, who, under a form of government extremely fimple, had been little accuftomed to the burden of taxes, complained loudly of the Regent's rapacity. And all began to turn their eyes towards the young King, from whom they expected the redrefs of all their grievances, and the return of a more gentle, and more equal adminiftration. James's education and ',:",, Olitioil. James was now in the twelfth year of his age. The Queen, foon after his birth, had committed him to the care of the Earl of Mar, and during the civil wars, he had refided fecurely in the caftle of Stirling. Alexander Erfkine, that nobleman's brother, had the chief direction of his education. Under him, the famous Bucha...« less