Seigneur Davie a Sketch Life of David Riccio Rizzio
Seigneur Davie a Sketch Life of David Riccio Rizzio
A Francis Archibald Francis Steuart
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' ' They mounted and rode in haste first to Seton, then to Dunbar, and so escaping, in spite of the hardships and danger to the Queen, outwitted the rebels who, with the ex- ception of Moray and Glencairn (who made his submission), fled to England vowing vengeance on Darnley, as he had been a traitor to their party. The Earls of Huntly and Bothwell hastened to the Queen's aid, and the latter reaped the fruits of the forfeiture of the fugitives. The Queen now became strong enough to return (from... Had- dington) to Edinburgh on i8th March. Moray received a pardon, and even Darnley received what exoneration was possible, though his father was not ad- mitted to the Queen's presence. The King protested before the Council 1 06 Sketch Life of David Riccio that he was innocent of the late events, and a proclamation that it was treason to implicate him in the Riccio murder was made on 21st March at the Mercat Cross, " which, " says Buchanan, " excited laughter amidst all this sorrow. " Two persons (the chiefs being fled) were put to death for Riccio's murder.
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