The chiefe mouers of the quarrell a|gainſt the Q and Bothwell.The deuiſers and procurers of this enter|priſe were knowen to bee the Lardes of Tali|bardin and Grange, who moued it firſte to the Earle of Morton, then remayning in Dow|glas: William Mai [...]lãd the yong Lard of Le|thington, principall Secretary to the Queene, beeing departed from hir eyghte dayes before had alſo procured the Lord Hume to ioine with the other in that quarrell.

Liberton Kirke.The place of their meeting was appoyn|ted at Liberton Kirk, two myles from E|denburgh, on Tewſday in the night the tenthe of Iune, whyther the Earle of Morton came firſt, the Lord Hume next.

And in the morning beeing Wedneſday, there came to them the Earle of Mar, who hadde the Prince in his keeping within the Ca|ſtell of Striueling, but bycauſe the Earle of Glencarne, the Lordes Lindſey, Ruthuen and Simple, the Maiſter of Grahame and others, came not to the place at the preciſe appoynted houre, they miſſed their purpoſe to take the Queene and Bothwell at Borthwike, as they had deuiſed,The Lordes diſappoynted of theyr pur|poſe. and ſo the Queene and Bothwell aduertiſed, of their aſſemble, ſlipte away to the Caſtell of Dunbar.