Part 15

For more information concerning this, see the third volume of ARCHAEOLOGIA SCOTICA, from which this is taken.

*III.--QUEEN MARY'S ARCHERS.*

"The Archearis of our Soverane Ladyis Gaird," seem to have numbered only seventy-five on their muster roll, in the books of the Comptroller and Collector of the Thirds of Benefices, 1st April, 1562. The pay list is as follows:--

"*Item*, To the Captain of the Guard, . . . . . v. c. lib. "To Robert Stewart, Ensign, . . . . . . . . . . j. c. l. lib. "To Corporal Jenat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . l. v. li. "To Captain Bello . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . j. c. lib. "To Captain Hew Lawder . . . . . . . . . . . . lxxv. lib."

Six Frenchmen, Dionese and Charles La Brone, Duval, La Bram, La Fram, Savoy, and a Trumpeter, appear on the list.

This garde-du-corps, which were enrolled under Sir Arthur Erskine, 1st April, 1562, or not quite a year after the Queen's return from France, continued under pay till 1567, when they were disbanded on her imprisonment in Lochleven. See the _Maitland Club Miscellany_.

*IV.--BOTHWELL.*

The following document is so little known, and so immediately relates to the melancholy fate of the unhappy hero of these pages, that an apology is almost unnecessary for presenting it here to the reader. It is the royal order for imprisoning him in the Castle of Malmoe:--

_Til Biorn Kaas_.

"FREDERICK--Be it known unto you, that we have ordered our well-beloved Peder Oxe, our man, Councillor and Marshall of the Kingdom of Denmark, to send the Scottish Earl, who resides in the Castle of Copenhagen, over to our Castle of Malmo, where he is to remain for some time. Therefore we request of you, that you will prepare the same vaulted room in the Castle where the Marshal Eyler Hardenberg had his apartment; and that you will cover with mason-work the private place in the same chamber; and where the iron bars of the windows may not be sufficiently strong and well guarded, that you will have them repaired; and when he arrives, that you will put him in the said chamber, give him a bed and good entertainment, as Peder Oxe will further direct and advise you; and that you, _before all things_, will keep a strong guard, and hold in good security, the said Earl, as you may best devise, in order that he shall not escape.

"THER MET SKEER WOR WILGE. (Thereby our will is done.)

"Written at Fredericksborg, the 28th day of December, of the year after the birth of Christ, 1567."

(See _Les Affaires du Conte de Boduel_, 4to.)

END OF VOL. III.

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