A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . erefore, on 2Sth Januarys,when seated at the Council, Angus telling him to his facethat he was a false trumping carle, that should answer tocertain points that he had played. ^ Meanwhile it wasbruited through Scotland thatAngus himself had signedthe compact imposed byKing Henry as a conditionof the release of his Scottishprisoners, whereof the tenourhad oozed out pretty was more than one false trumping carle in thegame, it would appear. The times were tooagitating, one
A history of the house of Douglas from the earliest times down to the legislative union of England and Scotland . erefore, on 2Sth Januarys,when seated at the Council, Angus telling him to his facethat he was a false trumping carle, that should answer tocertain points that he had played. ^ Meanwhile it wasbruited through Scotland thatAngus himself had signedthe compact imposed byKing Henry as a conditionof the release of his Scottishprisoners, whereof the tenourhad oozed out pretty was more than one false trumping carle in thegame, it would appear. The times were tooagitating, one might imagine,for marrying and givingin marriage. The English match, to be sure, sped not at all; but Angus, whohad never acknowledged the validity of his divorce fromAngus Queen Margaret, and in consequence had marries Lord refrained from taking another wife, now feltdati^L,\th free, Margaret being dead, to wed IS43- Among all the Scottish nobles none had stoodhigher in the favour of James V. than Robert, 5th LordMaxwell, who had been an active partisan in the French Hamilton Papers, i. 23 —Seal of Maigaret Maxwell,Countess of Angus. no THE HOUSE OF DOUGLAS interest, and therefore was always in opposition to the indignity put upon him by King James in thecampaign of Solway Moss, and subsequent opportunity forreflection in the Tower of London, had caused him torecognise solid arguments in favour of the English completely was his view changed by his imprisonmentthat he and his fellow-prisoners scrupled not to obtain theirliberty by signing a bond as shameful as that to whichAngus had set his seal in 1532, acknowledging Henry Lord Superior of Scotland, undertaking to do all in theirpower to put the government and fortresses of the kingdominto his hands, and to have the baby Queen of Scotsdelivered in England and brought up as the bride of theDuke of Cornwall. They were then released and allowed toproceed to Scotland, on the un
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