. Historical portraits ... argaretwould act in the interests of the English King, her brother. Butshe quarrelled with him, with her second husband and successivelywith most other people, too much to have any settled policy at French influence was represented in Scotland by Albany,who succeeded Margaret as Regent in 1515; but Albany wasoften in France, and the struggle for influence over the boy wasmainly between the Douglases and the Hamiltons. Somebody,perhaps his tutor, Gavin Dunbar, gave James a good education,and, though poems have been ascribed to him which he did notwrite and ref
. Historical portraits ... argaretwould act in the interests of the English King, her brother. Butshe quarrelled with him, with her second husband and successivelywith most other people, too much to have any settled policy at French influence was represented in Scotland by Albany,who succeeded Margaret as Regent in 1515; but Albany wasoften in France, and the struggle for influence over the boy wasmainly between the Douglases and the Hamiltons. Somebody,perhaps his tutor, Gavin Dunbar, gave James a good education,and, though poems have been ascribed to him which he did notwrite and reforms which he did not initiate, he grew up to be notonly a shrewd and clever but a very fairly learned man. In 1524the Estates declared him to be of age, but Angus retained thechief power over him even after Margaret had divorced Angusand married Henry Stuart; but James evidently hated Angus and allthe Douglas family, and by the time he was really able to thinkfor himself he chose his councillors mainly from the clergy. He. JAMES V OF SCOTLANDFrom a portrait in the possession of the Duke of Devonshire Face i, 38 JAMES V 39 drove Angus out of Scotland and bent all his energies to crushinghis partisans, especially upon the borders; and, to repress feuds,he set in working, in 1532, the Central College of Justice atEdinburgh, afterwards known as the Fifteen. From that datebegin Henrys attempts to control his Scottish nephew: in variousways, among others by the offer of the hand of Princess Mary, heattempted to get James to move in the orbit of England; and hehad unfortunately always the alternative card to play of excitingthe disloyal Scots nobles to make insurrections. Any alliance withEngland would, James saw, have to be based upon a repudiationof Papal Supremacy and consequently upon a breach with hisclergy, whom alone he felt able to trust. Protestantism hadbegun to show its head in a few of the eastern ports of Scotland, andJames, as an intelligent person, knew and avowed that
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