had done his Maiestie wrong, and that no trewe Christian can think otherwise, but that it was an high treason, attempted against his High nesse by the Maister and the Lord. Depones also that, to his opinion, the Kings whole companie was within a dozen of inen. Sic subscribitur, M. W. Rynd. 22 August, 1600, Maister William Rynd sworne and reexamined, if euer he heard the Earle of Gowrie vtter his opinion anent the dutie of an wise man in the execution of an high enterprise? Declares that, being out of the countrie, hee has diuerse times heard him reason in that matter; and that hee was ener of that opinion that hee was not an wise man, that, hauing intended the execution of an high and dangerous purpose, communicate the same to any but to him selfe, because, keeping it to him selfe, it coulde not be discouered nor disappointed; which the deponer declared before vn-required to the comptroller, and Maister William Cowper, minister at Perth; and, hearing the depositions of Andrew Hendersoun red, and being enquyred vpon his conscience what he thought of the fact that was committed against his Maiestie, declares that vppon his saluation that he beleeues Andrew Hendersoun has declared the circumstances trulie. Sic subscribitur, M. W. Rynd. Apud Falkland, 20 August, 1600. In Presence of the Lords Chancellar, Treasurer, Aduocate, Comptrollar, and Sir George Home, of Spot, Sir Iames Melvill, Knichts. Andrew Hendersoun, sworne and examined, and demanded what purpose was betwixt him and the Earle of Gowrie, vppon Monday at night the fourth of this instant in the said Earles chamber? Depones, that the Earle enquyred of him what he would be doing vppon the morrow, and hee answering that hee was to ryde to Ruthwen; the Earle said to him, you must ryde to Falkland with Maister Alexander, my brother, and when hee directs you backe, see that ye returne with al diligence, if he send a letter or anie other aduertisement with you. Depones, that the Maister directed him to send for Andrew Ruthwen, to be in readinesse to ryde with them the morrow at four houres in the morning. Declares, that, they comming to Falkland, about seuen houres in the morning, the Maister stayed in a ludging beside the palice, and directed the deponer to see what the King was doing; and, the deponer finding his Maiestie in the close comming forth, he past back and told the Maister, who immediatlie addressed him selfe to his Highnesse, and spake with his Maiestie a good space beneth the equerie; and after his Maiestie was on horseback, the Maister commes to the deponer, and commands him to fetche their horses, and bade him haste him, as he loued my Lords honour and his, and aduertise my Lord that his Maiestie and hee would be there incontinent, and that his Maiestie would be quiet; and, the deponer enquyring at the maister, if he should go presentlie, hee did bid him leap on and followe him, and not to go away vntill he spake with the King; and the Maister hauing spoken with the King, at a breach of the park wal, he turned backe and bade the deponer ride away; and the deponer making his return in al possible haste to Sanct. Johnstoun, he fand my Lord in his chamber about ten houres, who left the companie hee was speaking with, and come to the deponer, and asked, Hath my brother sent a letter with you? The deponer answered, no, but they will be al heere incontinent, and bade the deponer desire my Lord to cause prepare the dinner. Immediatlie therafter, my Lord took the deponer to the cabinet, and asked at him, how his Maiestie took with the Maister his brother? The deponer answered, very well, and that his Maiestie laide his hand ouer the Maisters shoulder. Therafter my Lord enquyred, if there was manie at the hunting with the King? The deponer answered, that he took no heed, but they who were accustomed to ride with his Maiestie, and some Englishmen were there? and that my Lord enquyred what special men were with his Maiestie, and that the deponer answered hee did see none but my Lord Duke. And within an houre therafter, when the deponent came in from his owne house, the Earle bid him put on his secreit and plait-sleeues, for he had an Heylandman to take, which the deponer did incontinent; and about twelve houres, when the deponer was going out to his owne house to his dinner, the steward came to him and shewe him that George Craigingelt was not well, and was lyne down, desired him to tary and take vp my Lords dinner; and about half an houer after twelue my Lord commanded him to take vp the first seruice; and, when the deponer was commanded to take up the second seruice, the Maister and William Blair came into the hal to my Lord. The deponer remembreth him selfe, that Andrew Ruthwen came before the Maister a certaine space, and spake with my Lord quyetlie at the table, but heard not the particular purpose that was amongst them. And so soone as the Maister came to the hal, my Lord and the whole company raise from the table; and the deponer, hearing the noyes of their foorth-going, supponed they were going to makebreakes for makilduy; and the deponer sent his boy for his gantlet and steil bonnet; and seeing my Lord passe to the Inshe, and not the Shoe-gate, the deponer did cast the gantlet in the pantrie, and caused his boy to take his steil bonnet to his owne house; and he followed my Lord to the Inshe, and returning backe with his Maiestie to the lodging, beeing directed to get drinke. And the Maister came to the deponer, and did bid him cause Maister William Rynd send him vp the key of the gallerie chamber, who past vp and deliuered the key to the Maister; and immediatlie my Lord followed vp, and did speak with the Maister, and came downe againe, and directed Maister Thomas Cranstoun to the deponer to come to his Lordship in his Maiesties chamber. And that my Lord directed him to go vp to the gallerie to his brother; and immediatlie my Lord followed vp, and commanded the deponer to byde there with his brother, and to doe anie thing that hee bade him. The deponer enquyred at the Maister, What haue yee to do, Sir? The Maister answered, yee · must goe in heere, and tarry vntill I come backe, for I will take the key with mee. So he lokked the deponer in the rounde within the chamber, and took the key with him. Shortly therafter, the maister returned, and the Kings Maiestie with him, to the saide cabinet in the rounde; and the Maister, opening the dore, entered with the King into the said rounde; and at his very entrie, couering his head, pulled out the deponers dagger, and held the same to his Maiesties breast, saying, Remember you of my Fathers murther? Yee shall now die for it; and minting to his Hienes heart with the dagger, the deponer threw the same out of the Maisters hand, and swore, that, as God shall iudge his soule, if the Maister had retained the dagger in his hand the space that a man may go six steppes, he would haue striken the King to the hilts with it: but wanting the dagger, and the Kings Maiestie giuing him a gentle answere, hee saide to the Kings Maiestie with abhominable oathes, that, if hee would keep silence, no thing should aile him, if hee woulde make such promise to his brother as they would craue of him; and the Kings Maiestie enquyring what promise they would craue? He answered, that he would bring his brother. So he goes forth, and lokkes the dore of the rounde vppon his Maiestie and the deponer, hauing first taken the King sworne that hee should not cry, nor open the windoe. And his Maiestie enquyring at the deponer what he was? He answered, a seruant of my Lords. And his Maiestie asking at the deponer, if my Lorde woulde doe anie euill to him? The deponer answered, as God shall iudge my soule, I shall die first. And, the deponer preising to haue opened the windoe, the Maister entered, and said, Sir, there is no remedie, by God, you must die; and, hauing a loose garter in his hand, preissed to have bound his Maiesties hands, and the deponer pulled the garter out of Maister Alexanders hand. And then the Maister did put one of his hands in his Maiesties mouth, to haue staied him to speak, and held his other arme about his Hienes neck: and that this deponer pulled the Maisters hand from his Hienesse mouth, and opened the windoe: and then his Maiestie cried out therat, wherupon his Hienes seruant came in at the gate, and this deponer did run and open the dore of the turn-pyke heade, whereat John Ramsay entered; and the deponer stoode in the chamber vntil he did see Iohn Ramsay giue the Maister ane stroke, and thereafter priuilie conuoyed him selfe downe the turnpyke to his owne house; and the deponers wife enquyring of him what the fraie meaned?: The deponer answered, that the Kings Maiestie would haue been twise stikked, were not he releeued him. Sic subscribitur, Andrew Hendersoun, with my Hand, Further, the saide Andrew Hendersoun depones, that, after his returning from Falkland upon the fifth of this instant, Maister John Montcrief enquyring of him where he had beene? He answered, that he had bene beyond the bridge of Erne; and sayes, that he gaue that answere to Maister Iohn, because my Lord commanded him to let no man knowe that he was to ride to Falkland; and that my Lords direction to him was to come backe with his brother Maister Alexanders answere, and to leave Andrew Ruthwen to await upon the Maister. Sic subscribitur, Andrew Hendersoun, with my hand. Further, the saide Andrew Hendersoun depones, that, when hee had taken the Maisters hand out of the Kings Maiesties mouth, and was opening the windoe, Maister Alexander said to him, will thou not helpe? Wo betyde thee, thow will make vs all die. Sic subscribitur, Andrew Hendersoun, with my Hand. THE GOLDEN SPEECH OF QUEEN ELISABETH, TO HER LAST PARLIAMENT, November 30. Anno Dom. 1601. [From a 4to Edition.] Within these three hundred years last past, almost all Europe (except Muscovy) lived under the happy form of a mixt monarchical government; having this maxim of the ancients, that the King and the people's interest are one and the same. The King had his dues, and the people had theirs; as it was then in France, Spain, Germany, Poland, &c. But the Pope, envying the happiness of princes, and people, under this mild monarchy; and to secure his new Trentine Antichristian supremacy, having gotten his Jesuits to be King's confessors, flattered and wheedled princes, that, as in the text, This shall be the manner of your kings; God was giving the people the Jus Divinum of Government, when, in truth, he was threatening them with the plague of Tyrants! And this took such effect, as to turn the former easy monarchies into absolute illegal tyrannies; which first began by Lewis the Eleventh, in France, and followed by that horrid Inquisition in Spain, &c. So that Europe, and the West Indies, have been the shambles of Papal barbarities in the massacres of millions of Christians, and other human souls, ever since. Our wise Queen Elisabeth, therefore, having a right regard to the general good and weal of the people, accommodated her government to the true genius of the monarchical institution, as it then stood: for she constantly courted the people, expressing her monarchy was founded in the people's affections: aud by that expedient kept up herself and monarchy to that height and glory, as it first stood in its natural foundation; and this against all foreign powers. And she thus answered all the ends of government; for factions and parties were thus sunk, the interest of court and country were made one, and virtue, honesty, and piety were restored and encouraged. This Speech ought to be set in letters of gold, that as well the majesty, prudence, ..and virtue of her gracious Majesty, Queen Elisabeth, might in general most exquisitely appear; as also that her religious love, and tender respect, which she particularly, and constantly, did bear to her Parliament, in unfeigned sincerity, might be nobly and truly vindicated, and proclaimed, with all grateful recognition to God for so great a blessing to his people of England, in vouchsafing them heretofore such a gracious Princess, and magnanimous defender of the Reformed Religion, and heroick patroness of the Liberty of her Subjects, in the Freedom and Honour of their Parliaments; which have been, under God, the continual conservators of the splendor, and wealth of this kingdom, against tyranny and oppression. Her Majesty being set under State in the Council-chamber at White-hall, the Speaker, accompanied with Privy-counsellors, besides Knights and Burgesses of the Lower House, to the number of eight-score, presenting themselves at her Majesty's feet, for that so graciously and speedily she had heard and yielded to her subjects desires, and proclaimed the same in their hearing, as followeth; Mr. Speaker, WE perceive your coming is to present thanks unto us: know, I ac cept them with no less joy, than your loves can have desire to offer such a present, and do more esteem it, than any treasure of riches; for those We know how to prize, but Loyalty, Love, and Thanks, I account them invaluable and though God hath raised Me high, yet this I account the glory of my Crown, that I have reigned with your loves. This makes that I do not so much rejoice, that God hath made Me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a people, and to be the mean, under God, to conserve you in safety, and to preserve you from danger; yea, to be the instrument to deliver you from dishonour, shame, and infamy; to keep you from servitude, and from slavery under our enemies, and cruel tyranny, and vile oppression, intended against Us: for the better withstanding whereof, We take very acceptably your intended helps, and chiefly in that it manifesteth your loves, and largeness of heart to your Sovereign. Of myself I must say this, I never was any greedy scraping grasper, nor a strict fast-holding Prince, nor yet a waster; my heart was never set upon any wordly goods, but only for my subjects good. What you do bestow on Me, I will not hoard up, but receive it to be VOL. II. • The Pope and Popish Princes, especially the King of Spain. Z |