The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

where some Articles were devised, and delivered to the Lord of Murray to be presented to the Queens Majesty and privy Council, which Articles were enlarged at the general assembly following, as shall be declared. In the mean time, as they were informed in Court of this great Assembly of people in Edinburgh, they were afraid, for naturally the Queen-hated and suspected all such Conventions as were not in her own presence, and devised by her self. The chief Counsellors in the Court, were the Earls of Lenox and Athole. The Queen writ incontinent for all the Lords to come to Stirling, so soon as she was advertised that they had Treated in Edinburgh of Religion; She Writ likewise for the superintendents and other learned men who went thither, and being there they caused to keep the Ports or Gates, and make good Watch about the Town. The special cause of this Convention was to give to the Lord Darley Title of Honour openly and solemnly, with consent of the Nobles, before the marriage. The fourth day of May ⟨p. 407⟩the Earle of Murray came to Stirling, where he was well received by the Queens Majesty, as appeared, and immediately, as he past with her to my Lord Darley's Chamber, they presented to him a Contract, containing in effect, That forasmuch, as, or since, the Queen had contracted Marriage with the Lord Darley, and that therefore sundry Lords of the Nobility had under-written, ratified and approved the same, and obliged themselves to grant unto him in full Parliament the Crown Matrimonial, (by a new Court Solecism in Policy, the Crown for the second time is surnamed Matrimonial; (before, when the Queen was first married, it was so called also) to serve and obey him and her as their Lawful Sovereigns. The Queen desired my Lord Murray to subscribe, as many others had done before; which he refused to do, Because (said he) it is required necessarily that the whole Nobility be present, at least the principal, and such as he himself was posterior unto, before that so grave a matter should be advised and concluded.

where some Articles were devised, and delivered to the Lord of Murray to be presented to the Queens Majestie and privie Councell, which Articles were enlarged at the generall assembly following, as shall be declared. In the meane time, as they were informed in Court of this great Assembly of people in Edinburgh, they were affraid, for naturally the Queen-hated and suspected all such Conventions as were not in her own presence, and devised by her self. The chief Counsellors in the Court, were the Earls of Lenox and Athole. The Queen writ incontinent for all the Lords to come to Sterlin, so soone as she was advertised that they had Treated in Edinburgh of Religion; She Writ likewise for the superintendants and other learned men who went thither, and being there they caused to keep the Ports or Gates, and make good Watch about the Towne. The speciall cause of this Convention was to give to the Lord Darley Title of Honour openly and solemnly, with consent of the Nobles, before the marriage. The fourth day of May