HISTORY O.F SCOTLAND DURING THE REIGNS OF QUEEN MARY AND OF KING JAMES V I. TILL HIS ACCESSION TO THE CROWN OF ENGLAND. WITH A REVIEW OF THE SCOTTISH HISTORY And AN APPENDIX CONTAINING ORIGINAL PAPERS. IN TWO VOLUMES. BY WILLIAM ROBERTSON, VOLUME II. A NEW EDITION. VIENNA, Printed for F, A. SCHRÆMBL,corner in the Karnthner Street. Nro. 1053. was cut off, ftruck the King's party with the utmoft confternation. Elizabeth bewailed his death as the most fatal difafter which could have befallen her kingdom; and was inconfolable to a degree that little fuited her dignity. Mary's adherents exulted, as if, now, her reftoration were not only certain, but near at hand. The infamy of the crime naturally fell on those, who expreffed fuch indecent joy at the commiffion of it. And as the affaffin made his escape on a horfe, which belonged to Lord Claud Hamilton, and fled directly to Hamilton, where he was received in triumph, it was concluded that the Regent had fallen a facrifice to the refentment of the Queen's party, rather than to the revenge of a private man. On the day. after the murder, Scott of Buccleugh, and Ker |