The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

Soon after my Lord Erskine and the Master Maxwell past to him to S. Andrews, rather suffered and permitted by the Queen, then sent by her Highness; after them the Laird of Dun, who was sent by the means of the Earl of Mar, but all this did not prevail with him; and when all hope of his coming was past, an Herald was sent to him, charging him to come to the Queens Majesty, and answer to such things as should be laid to his charge within eight and forty hours next after the Charge, under pain of Rebellion; and because he appeared not the next day after the eight and forty hours, he was denounced Rebel, and put to the Horne. The same order they used against the Earle of Argyle, for the Queen said she would serve him ⟨p. 415⟩and the rest with the same measure they had mete to others, meaning the said Argyle.

Soon after my Lord Erskin and the Master Maxwell past to him to S. Andrews, rather suffered and permitted by the Queen, then sent by her Highnesse; after them the Laird of Dun, who was sent by the means of the Earl of Mar, but all this did not prevail with him; and when all hope of his coming was past, an Herald was sent to him, charging him to come to the Queens Majesty, and answer to such things as should be laid to his charge within eight and fourty hours next after the Charge, under pain of Rebellion; and because he appeared not the next day after the eight and forty hours, he was denounced Rebell, and put to the Horne. The same order they used against the Earle of Argyle, for the Queen said she would serve him ⟨p. 415⟩and the rest with the same measure they had mete to others, meaning the said Argyle.

In the mean while, as the fire was well kindled, and inflamed, all means and ways were sought, to stir up enemies against the chief Protestants that had been lately at Stirling; for the Earle of Athole was ready bent against the Earle of Argyle: the Lord Lindsay against the Earle Rothesse in Fife, they being both Protestants; for they had contended now a long time for the Heir-ship of Fife: And that no such thing should be left undone, the Lord Gordon, who now had remained near three years in prison in Dumbar, was, after some little travel of his friends, received by the Queen; and being thus received into favour, was restored first to the Lordship of Gordon, and soon after to the Earldom of Huntley, and to all his Lands, Honours and Dignities, that he might be a bar and a party in the North to the Earle of Murray.