lian Rizzio to be murdered, the queen
never rested till she caused her husband to be murdered, and divine
justice after all never rested till it had caused her to be murdered; so
that blood followed blood, till the whole knot was destroyed.

DEFOE'S memoirs, p. 59.

[29] Sir James Melvil of Halhill, in his memoirs, from page 173 to page
178, seems to insinuate, that altho' the earl of Moray was at first of a
gentle nature, religiously educated, well inclined, good, wise, &c. yet
when he was advanced to the helm of government, through the mean of
flatterers, he became more proud and rough in his proceedings, which,
together with his too remiss conduct anent his own preservation after so
many warnings, was the cause of his own ruin.--And says further, That he
was compelled sometimes to receive and apply divers sentences of Solomon
concerning chancellors and rulers to this good regent, which he ordered
him to commit to writing that he might carry them in his pocket: But
before he was slain, this different gloss on the life and character of
Moray is contradicted, in substance, by the historians, Knox and
Buchanan.

[30] Buchanan's history, vol. II. P. 392.

[31] Spotswood's history, P. 234.

[32] In the memoirs of the duke of Sully, prime minister to Henry IV of
France, Vol. 1. page 392. Edin. edit. 1773, there is the following note:
James de Bethune, arch bishop of Glasgow in Scotland, came to Paris in
quality of ambassador in ordinary from the queen of Scotland, and died
there in 1603, aged 66 years, having 57 years suffered great
vicissitudes of fortune, since the violent death of cardinal de Bethune
arch-bishop of St. Andrews his uncle, which happened in 1646: His
epitaph may be still seen in the church of St. John de Lateran.

[33] Vide Calderwood's history, page 31.

[34] In the space of two or three days, there were about 70000
protestants murdered in cold blood in Paris, and other parts of France.
This massacre was begun in the night of St. Bartholomew's day in the
reign of Charles IX. of that kingdom; the king of Navarre, afterward
Henry the Great, narrowly escaped on that occasion, for he was then in
Paris, on account of the solemnization of his marriage with Charles's
sister, which marriage the papists had contrived, in order to draw as
many protestants into that city as possible, that they might have them
in their power. See the account of this mournful event at large in
Sully's memoirs, volume I.

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