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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 December 2009
This is a copy, in a contemporary clerkly hand, of an account of a statement upon the subject of an Anglo-Scottish alliance made to Robert Ashby, the representative of Elizabeth in Scotland, by Sir John Maitland, the Lord Chancellor of Scotland, a brother of the famous Maitland of Lethington and perhaps the most influential man in Scotland at this time. The account was probably sent to Elizabeth or to some one of her privy councillors by Ashby in one of his letters, but the original of it appears to be missing. This copy is endorsed by Sir Christopher Hatton.
page 105 note 1 The estates of the Earl of Lennox, James' paternal grandfather, in England which James had demanded of Elizabeth more than once, and which she had steadily refused to deliver over to him.
page 105 note 2 The English of this paragraph is so awkward that it is not so easy to catch the drift of it. It might perhaps be expressed in other terms as follows :— To these inducements, offered by foreign princes, the King's own subjects added their persuasions. They spoke of the indignities which the Queen of England had offered him by the execution of his mother and the refusal of his grandfather's estates; they pointed out to him that the Catholic powers had “preferred” to him his mother's claim to the English throne and were prepared to assist him making good that claim with great forces by sea and land; they reminded him of the jealousy which the Queen of England had always cherished towards his mother, declaring that her nearness to the English throne had been the real reason for her death; and they bade him consider whether this jealousy would not now be transferred to him,—yea, increased towards him because he was not an old, sickly and unfortunate prisoner like his mother, but a young, a learned, a virtuous and a Godly prince.