. Historical portraits ... U) 3 J3 •5 u o -» >- _2 > c o ^ ^J -• ca <■ M w . \^^ f—• o ^^ -*-» .^ ►^ o p^ ^ \\ U) J- s. « r^ CD ^ w O o Q. p. 2 P b uo 3C3 OD. o Eo 143 JAiMES STEWART EARL OF MORAY (1531-^570) Regent of Scotland for James VI, was the natural son of James Vand Margaret Erskine, and is famous both for his headship of theProtestant interest during the reign of his sister Mary, and for thesubtlety with which he concealed his deep personal ambition. Heappears first as holding the Priory of St. Andrews, but there is noevidence that he ever contemplated taking orders. He acco
. Historical portraits ... U) 3 J3 •5 u o -» >- _2 > c o ^ ^J -• ca <■ M w . \^^ f—• o ^^ -*-» .^ ►^ o p^ ^ \\ U) J- s. « r^ CD ^ w O o Q. p. 2 P b uo 3C3 OD. o Eo 143 JAiMES STEWART EARL OF MORAY (1531-^570) Regent of Scotland for James VI, was the natural son of James Vand Margaret Erskine, and is famous both for his headship of theProtestant interest during the reign of his sister Mary, and for thesubtlety with which he concealed his deep personal ambition. Heappears first as holding the Priory of St. Andrews, but there is noevidence that he ever contemplated taking orders. He accom-panied his infant sister to France, and visited France on a lateroccasion for purposes of study; and his education was certainlyfar above the average of that of the unlettered Scottish nobles of hisday. As early as 1555 he was known to Knox as a sympathizer withthe doctrines of reform, and he probably owes the fair reputation,which unscientific Protestant historians have allowed him, to hislifelong friendship with that famous preacher. But it is quiteevident that behind the mask of the devout Puritan lay a mostunscrupulous ambition, which in
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