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. 1840 Excerpt: ... it proved useless, and the cardinal failed in his attempt. The great body of the nation looked with horror at the very idea of an intriguing and savage persecutor obtaining the government of the country. The nobility shrunk from being subordinate to an ambitious churchman; and by general consent the office was ...
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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. 1840 Excerpt: ... it proved useless, and the cardinal failed in his attempt. The great body of the nation looked with horror at the very idea of an intriguing and savage persecutor obtaining the government of the country. The nobility shrunk from being subordinate to an ambitious churchman; and by general consent the office was conferred on the earl of Arran, who was of royal descent, and next heir to the crown. The new regent possessed many private virtues, but he decidedly wanted the strength of judgment and the firmness of purpose necessary for the government of a country situated as Scotland then was. The queen, not yet a year old, was crowned at Stirling, on Sunday, the 9th of September, 1543, by Cardinal Beaton, the regent Arran, as next in blood, bearing the crown. Commissioners were appointed to take charge of her person; but she was allowed to remain with her mother, to whom the palaces of Linlithgow and Stirling were assigned for her residence. Liberal provision was also made for upholding her dignity and securing her comfort. Henry VIII., who had so long embroiled the council and government of James, had now a new object to attract his notice; and before the queen was a month old he had begun his boisterous courtship for his infant son, --a courtship which disgusted the Scottish nation, and led the Earl of Huntly, when asked for his support to the match, to say, that he misliked not so much the match as he did the way of wooing. Under the peculiar circumstances in which the country was placed it was subsequently considered unsafe to trust the person of the queen either at Stirling or Linlithgow; and accordingly she was conveyed, still under her mother's charge, to Inchmahome, an island in the Loch of Menteith, where she remained until her departure for France. Not..
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