The History of the Reformation of the Church of Scotland

The Earle of Huntley, whose Corps had been unburied till the time it was brought to the Tolbooth; he was accused his Arms rent off; himself, the Earle of Sutherland, ¹and eleven Barons, and Earls, bearing the surname of Gordon, were that day forfeited; the Lady Huntley craftily protested and asked the support of a man of Law, or Counsellor.

The Earle of Huntley, whose Corps had been unburied till the time it was brought to the Tolbuith; he was accused his Arms rent off; himself, the Earle of Sutherland, ¹and eleven Barons, and Earles, bearing the surname of Gordon, were that day forfeited; the Lady Huntley craftily protested and asked the support of a man of Law, or Counsellor.

1. 1Huntley forfeited.

Such stinking pride of women,¹ as was seen at that Parliament, was never seen before in Scotland. Three sundry days the Queen rode to the Tolbooth; The first day she made a painted Oration, and there might have been heard amongst her flatteries, Vox Dianae, The voice of a goddess, for it could not be Dei, and not of a Woman: God save that sweet face; Was there ever Orator spake so properly and so sweetly, &c.

Such stinking pride of women,¹ as was seen at that Parliament, was never seen before in Scotland. Three sundry dayes the Queen rode to the Tolbuith; The first day she made a painted Oration, and there might have been heard amongst her flatteries, Vox Dianae, The voyce of a goddesse, for it could not be Dei, and not of a Woman: God save that sweet face; Was there ever Orator spake so properly and so sweetly, &c.