The History Of Scotland Volume 5: From Murray To The King Of Many Enemies by Andrew Lang

Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Geschichte
ISBN: 9783849604653
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 2013-01-05T00:00:00+00:00

But Morton, we must remember, though never suspected of Catholic tendencies, had, when Regent, been at least as highhanded towards the Kirk as the young king himself. Morton had resisted the right of the preachers to " convocate the lieges." When requested to come to the General Assembly and " further the cause of God," he not only refused, but threatened some of the most zealous with hanging, alleging that otherwise "there could be no peace nor order in the country," a theory later acted on by Charles II. The editor of Calderwood tells a story of Morton's short way with preachers. A certain Captain Cullen had been with Mary of Guise during her mortal illness at Edinburgh Castle, whence he corresponded with her brother, the Cardinal of Lorraine. After the siege of Leith he entered the Danish service, and after Riccio's murder was a captain in Mary's guard of harquebus-men. He was said to have advised the strangling of Darnley at Kirk-o'Field, as he had observed that the effects of explosions were capricious. He was captured by the lords, but it was not deemed wise to publish his revelations: he was allowed to escape, forfeiting his recognisances. He later took service under Kirkcaldy when that knight held the castle for Mary. The captain, after a skirmish, was found hiding ingloriously in a meat-safe. He had a very pretty wife, so Morton hanged him and lived with his widow. For this Morton was rebuked by Andrew Douglas, minister of Dunglas. His reply, it is said by Calderwood's editor, was first to torture Douglas in the boot, and then hang him, a story not easily credible.

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