The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . her marriage with the son of theEarl of Lennox. After twenty years banishment,the earl arrived in Edinburgh on the 23rd of Septem-ber, 1564, and in December his titles and estateswere restored. Henry, Lord Darnley, his eldest son,came to Edinburgh on the 12th of February, him, failing direct heirs of Elizabeth and Mary,would fall the succession to both the English and theScottish Crowns. He was young and handsome, butvain and ambitious, and devoid of ability and moral DARNLEY. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. I43 character ; an
The story of Scotland from the earliest times to the present century .. . her marriage with the son of theEarl of Lennox. After twenty years banishment,the earl arrived in Edinburgh on the 23rd of Septem-ber, 1564, and in December his titles and estateswere restored. Henry, Lord Darnley, his eldest son,came to Edinburgh on the 12th of February, him, failing direct heirs of Elizabeth and Mary,would fall the succession to both the English and theScottish Crowns. He was young and handsome, butvain and ambitious, and devoid of ability and moral DARNLEY. GENERAL ASSEMBLY. I43 character ; and he had not been many weeks in Scot-land before he had made enemies. The Earl ofMoray, who had acted as head of the governmentsince the queens return from France, was stronglyopposed to the marriage ; and his party formed anaversion to Darnley. As Darnley was a RomanCatholic, this intensified the difficulties of the concerted measures to prevent the queensmarriage ; but a special meeting of the nobles andofficers of State was held at Stirling in May, and. CIPHER OF LORD DARNLEY AND QUEEN MARY. Mary announced to them her intention to marryDarnley. The General Assembly, in June, 1565, passedcertain resolutions for the purpose of being enactedby Parliament and ratified by the queen. Amongstother things, they demanded that the mass, with allpapistical idolatry and papal jurisdiction, should besuppressed and abolished throughout the realm, notonly in the subjects, but also in the queens ownperson. Mary replied that she was not yet persuaded 144 REIGN OF QUEEN MARY. in the Protestant religion, nor that there was anyimpiety in the mass ; that, to deal plainly with hersubjects, she neither would nor might leave thereligion wherein she had been nourished and broughtup ; that she had not in the past, and did not intendthereafter to press the conscience of any, and thatthey on their part should not press her conscience, Moray and his party met at Stirling on the 15th ofJuly,
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