Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain (Volume 2 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1855 Excerpt: ... Earl of Glencairn, Hugh Cunningham, and Thomas Bishop, secretary to Lennox, whom, for the disquiet of his future existence, he had made the companion of his flight. They all signed at Carlisle the articles which branded them renegades. Glencairn was given a gratuity of one thousand crowns, for his intended betrayal of the castle of Dumbarton; and the Bishop of Caithness was to remain in England, as hostage for his brother's performance of the treaty.1 Lennox pledged himself to deliver up to its English enemy the castles of Dumbarton and Rothesay, to prevent Henry VIII.'s pronepte, the infant Queen, from being sent into France; and, moreover, if ever in his power, to deliver her up to that King, her loving uncle. To reward these good doings, Henry VIII., by his Lord-Warden Wharton, stipulated to make the said Matthew Lord-Governor of Scotland, when he could subjugate it. He was, for present encouragement, to receive the hand of the King of England's niece, Margaret Douglas, with an annuity of five hundred English marks. Lennox and his friends then withdrew, it may be supposed to his ship, or ships, at Chester, leaving his brother Robert, Bishop-elect of Caithness, in the hands of the Lord-Warden, as hostage. Meantime his bridal was preparing at St. James' Palace in London, where apartments were made ready for him and Margaret. Lennox could offer little in the form of a jointure to the niece of the English monarch, since all his Scotch estates, if we may trust the valuation at which the Regent Arran rated them, would not, if sold, have realized ten thousand pounds Scots; and even these would be forfeited by his treason to his Queen and country. The Lady Margaret Douglas received from her cousin, the Princess Mary, several valuable jewels as marriage gifts: a ...