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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57983	A relation of the death of David Rizzi chief favorite to Mary Stuart Queen of Scotland; who was killed in the apartment of the said Queen on the 9th of March 1565. Written by the Lord Ruthen [sic], one of the principal persons concerned in that action. Published from an original manuscript. Together with an account of David Rizzi, faithfully translated from Geo. Buchanan's History of Scotland.	Ruthven, Patrick Ruthven, Lord, d. 1566.; Buchanan, George, 1506-1582. Rerum Scoticarum historia. English. Selections. aut	1699 (1699)	Wing R2397B; ESTC R218070	27,471	52

to cross David's Designs if the Marriage should succeed with the consent of the Queen of England and of the Nobility of Scotland the first that he should lose the Honour of being accounted the Author the second that provision would be made for the Security of Religion whereas if the Queen would join her self with the Council of Trent he promised himself Honours Benefices infinite Treasures and uncontrouled Authority For these reasons he left nothing unattempted to precipitate the Marriage and effected it the Scots being not well pleased and the English most highly offended Fol. 209. In the mean time David finding the Court cleared of the principal Persons of the Nobility that he might confirm his intemperate hopes of Power còntinually laboured by rash Advice to excite the Queen to use the coercive Power of the Sword against the Heads of the several Parties assuring her that if a few were removed the rest would not dare to attempt any thing But conjecturing that the Queen's Guards being Scotsmen would not easily consent to the Murder of the Nobility he made it his principal business to turn them out from that Post and to introduce Foreigners which has almost ever been the rise of all Tyranies into that Body To that end a motion was first made to send for Germans that Nation being esteemed to be of great fidelity to their Masters but David having attentively consider'd the matter concluded it to be more commodious for the carrying on of his Designs that Italians should be admitted to that Imployment being perswaded that Men of the same Nation with himself would not only be more intirely under his Power but that having no tincture of any Religion they would be also the most proper Instruments of embroiling Affairs and making no distinction between what is just and what unjust might easily be driven to perpetrate any kind of Villany besides which men indigent and wicked born and educated under Tyrants accustomed to unjust War and who being far from home esteemed nothing in Britain dear to them seemed most fit to support the Innovations intended To this end he began by degrees to send for vagabond Souldiers from Flanders and other Countries upon the Continent who came single and at different times that what was doing might not appear but to offend one of these was more dangerous than to offend the Queen In the mean time as the Power and Authority of David with the Queen increased daily so the King became daily more contemtible to her and to treat him yet with greater indignity David was substituted to sign divers publick Acts in the place of the King Fol. 209. The Queen not contenting her self to have raised David from the meanest obscurity and exposed him to the view of the People in this high degree of Elevation contrived another way of honouring him in a domestick and more familiar manner She had for some Months admitted more Persons than had been usual at her Table that David might have a place there with less envy on account of the number of those who received that honour not doubting by this shew of Popularity the numerous company and daily use the strangeness of the Spectacle would by degrees not only wear off but the Stomach of the stoutest be insensibly accustomed to suffer any thing At last David with only one or two more was permitted to eat with her yet that the straitness of the Place might in some measure diminish the Envy of the Action they sometimes eat in a little Closet and sometimes in David's Chamber But instead of lessening the Publick Envy by these means they increased their own Infamy confirmed former Suspicions and afforded matter for sinister Discourses Another thing fell in also to inflame the minds of Men already disposed to believe the worst that David for surpassed the King in rich Furniture Cloths number and goodness of Horses which Indignity seemed so much the greater by how much his Face contributed more to destroy the effect of every Ornament about him than any of those Advantages to grace his Person Therefore the Queen since she could not correct the faults of Nature endeavours by heaping Honours upon him to advance him into the highest Order of Men that the Meanness of his Birth and his personal Deformity might lie concealed under the cover of a fortuitous Nobility but most especially that by this means having a right of voting in the publick Assemblies he might be enabled to manage those Councils as the Queen should direct And because it was thought necessary to advance gradually and that he might not seem to be an indigent and mercenary Senator their first attempt was made upon a Lordship called by the Seots Malvil and situated near Edinburgh The Possessor of the Lordship with his Father-in-law and such Friends as were thought to have the most influence upon him were sent for to the Queen who endeavoured to prevail with the Lord to deliver up his Possession quietly and to induce his Father-in-law with the rest of his Friends to perswade him so to do But this way not taking effect as was desired the Queen interpreted their refusal as an affront to her and which was more pernicious David was highly offended The People for these things were not done in the dark began to deplore the present Evils and to expect worse every day If men of the most antient Families and Honour might be expelled from the Seats of their Ancestors at the will of an indigent Rascal The old men called to mind and frequently mentioned the time when Cockeran after the barbarous Murder of the King's Brother was advanced from a Porter to the Earldom of Marr and filled the whole Kingdom with Fire and Sword which Desolation terminated in the Death of the King and almost total S●●bversion of the Kingdom To these things which were publick men in private Discourses added many more as is usual in undecent and scandalous cases But the King resolving to credit nothing save what he should discover by himself being informed that David was gone into the Queen's Chamber he went to the Door of which he always carried a Key and contrary to custom finding it to be bolted within he knocked but no one answering he departed in a great rage and being agitated by most violent Passions passed the greater part of the Night without Sleep Fol. 210. About that time Letters were brought from the Queen of England in which many things concerning the present state of Affairs in Scotland were kindly and prudently treated with a gentle and affectionate admonition to her Kinswoman to lay aside her Passion and to entertain more moderate Counsels The Queen understanding that the Lords knew such Letters were arrived and that no one doubted the Contents called divers of them to her hoping the favour would be interpreted to proceed from inclination and began to read them in their presence But as she was in the course of her reading David openly admonished her that