1 _FIrst, that all the souldiers of the reli|gion, and such as did belong to them, Fr. Thin. Lesleus lib. 10 pag. 553. Buchanan. lib. 16. should depart from Edenburgh, and leaue the same to the gouernement of the queene: with this prouiso, that the citizens should either remaine, or depart at their pleasure.
2 Item, that those of the religion should restore vnto the magistrats wholie and trulie all such sums of monie, or other pretious things, which they had ei|ther priuatlie taken, or by open force spoiled from the magistrats.
3 Thirdlie, that the quéenes palace, which they of the religion did possesse, with all the furniture and or|naments thereof, should be deliuered vp againe to such as should be appointed therefore.
4 Fourthlie, that they of the religion should not depart, before they had committed the lord Ruthwen and Pettarrow (whome they promised to put in pled|ges for their credit and good dealing) to the keeping of such as were on the quéenes part.
5 Fiftlie, that all men should acknowledge the gouernement of the king and the quéene to be law|full, which before they had gainesaid by the pretense of religion: and that they should faithfullie obeie the regent, and the old lawes of the kingdome, except such decrees as perteined not to religion.
6 Sixtlie, that they should not by anie meanes trouble the catholike priests and ecclesiasticall per|sons, or hinder them from quiet gathering and inioi|eng their rents, tithes, and profits, vntill the fourth Ides of Ianuarie.
7 Seuenthlie, that they should not from hence|foorth violate or deface churches, religious houses, or anie other holie places.
8 Eightlie, that euerie man might at Eden|burgh professe and vse what religion he would, which they commonlie called the libertie of conscience.
9 Ninthlie, that the quéene regent should faith|fullie prouide, that the preachers of the reformed reli|gion should not be molested or hurt, either by hir, or by anie of the catholike gouernors. Both parties be|ing thus satisfied with these conditions, the French entered Leith.]
[1] [2] Shortlie after this, the duke of Chatelerault, part|lie Duke Chate|lerault taketh part with the reformers of the churches. through persuasion of the earle of Argile his si|sters sonne, and the Westland lords, and partlie be|cause he vnderstood that his son the earle of Arrane was fled foorth of France to Geneua for the religion, he tooke part with the lords from that time foorth a|gainst the aduise of the bishop of saint Andrews, and diuerse other his friends. This yeere in Iune, Henrie King Henrie was hurt and died. the king of France, at the triumph of the mariages betwixt the king of Spaine and his daughter, and duke of Sauoie and his sister, was wounded in iusts at the tourneillis in Paris by the count Montgo|merie, and died of the hurts the tenth of Iulie next insuing, being the eleuenth day after he was woun|ded. Then Francis his sonne, that had maried the Francis the Dolphin suc|céeded his fa|ther. quéene of Scotland, was crowned king at saint De|nis, and annointed at Reimes in September fol|lowing.
Fr. Thn. Lesleus. lib. 10. pag. 554. In the moneth of September, Croke a noble man of France was sent to the regent, to comfort hir in the kings name; declaring vnto hir that an ar|mie was preparing to come into Scotland, vnder the leading of the marquesse of Albufe or Elbufe (as saith Buchanan) and that in the meane time with all spéed some troopes of men should shortlie be there with monie, and other defenses of warre. And to the end that nothing should want to further hir, the king would shortlie send certeine noble men into Scot|land, which should counsell hir in these troublesome affaires. Besides which, he brought letters out of France from the king and the queene, to the prior of saint Andrewes, in which they rather sought to in|cline his mind by courtesie to obedience, before that they would inforce him therevnto by warre. Which letters being by Lesleus turned out of French into Latine are by me thus deliuered in English, with the answer of the prior to the same.