A Lost Chapter in the History of Mary Queen of Scots, Recovered; Notices of James, Earl of Bothwell, and Lady Jane Gordon, and of the Dispensation F (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...of the Earl of Caithness, as in right of the ward of the Earl of Sutherland who was a minor. We learn from Sir Robert Gordon that he used his power with great cruelty, and that not only the Earl but many of the Sutherland men were driven out of their country, and took refuge with the Gordons at Strathbogie and Auchindoun, taking their share in the fights which were going on between the Gordons and the Forbeses. The Earl of Caithness had also inveigled the Earl of Sutherland, when only a lad of fifteen years of age, into a marriage with his daughter, Lady Barbara Sinclair, ' ane unfitt match indeid, a youth ' of fyftenc iuareid to a woman of threttie-two yeirs; bot a match ' fitt enough to cover her incontinence and ivil lyff which shoe led ' with Y-Macky, for the which shoe wes afterwards divorced from ' Earle Alexander.'1 The Earl of Sutherland was a youth of seventeen when became to Strathbogie, and he appears to have continued his residence there till he came of age in 1573, when, in the month of July of that year, he was served heir to his father, Earl John, 'which being 1 History of the Earldom of Sutherland, p. 151. ' done, he charged and summoned the Earle of Atholl and the ' Earle of Catteynes to remove from all his lands which they or any ' of thir adherents did possesse by reason of his ward.'1 It is symptomatic of the wild state of the country that the messenger of the law sent to execute the charge ' wes no sooner ' within the bounds of Catteynes, bot Earle George caused Mur-' dow-Mack-ean-Roy kill him;' but at last it happened that the Earl of Sutherland, ' with the rest who wer banished by the Earle ' of Catteynes, did returne into Southerland in the later end of the ' yeir of God 15/3.' The Earl had been living in the same...