The History Of Scotland Volume 3: From James IV. To Knox And Mary Of Guise by Andrew Lang

Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
ISBN: 9783849604639
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

Margaret informed her brother Henry (March 16) that the clergy advised James not to go south of Newcastle, nor listen to " your new constitutions of the Scripture." A hitch had occurred. Henry would not declare the cause of his desiring the interview " to any man alive except the Scottish king." Stories went abroad that, as Barlowe produced his Biblical parallels, and tried to convert James, the air was darkened and rent by thunder, whereon James crossed himself and declined further instruction.

On April 25, 1536, Lord William Howard explained the state of affairs to Henry. On Good Friday he saw James at Stirling, when James asked "for what particular causes" Henry desired a meeting? He must have these causes to lay before his Council. Howard replied that for kings to give particular reasons in such cases was unheard of, and that James must have listened to malicious tongues. This reply showed little tact. Howard, as Chapuys said, had none. James answered that his Council had never been made privy to the project of meeting, and declared that they would never have agreed to it. As James had made a promise they would agree to a meeting at Newcastle at Michaelmas. Howard perceived the great inconvenience of this arrangement to Henry. He added that the marriage arranged between James and Mary de Bourbon, daughter of the Due de Vendome, was broken off (the marriage treaty had been signed on March 29, 1536), James insisting on wedding the mother of his son, later the Regent Moray, who might be divorced from her husband. A marriage which would have legitimated the future Regent might have saved much woe but it could not be. The royal meeting had been a private project of James and the queenmother, who herself admitted that it had not been plainly declared to the Council. Henry, keeping his temper remarkably well, wrote to James that an alteration had been made in what he had considered a definite arrangement. He had only desired to indulge his affection for his nephew. He was still ready to meet James at York a fortnight before Michaelmas. On May 13, Howard told Henry that James was dissimulating, and had sent to Rome to ask the Pope to forbid the royal meeting. James denied that he had ever formally agreed to a meeting at York, " by no manner of writing or credence." He must act by advice of his Council.

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