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Mary (QUEEN OF SCOTS ing this union)

QUEEN OF SCOTS ing this union, headed a rebellion against the Earl of Murray, after bitterly opposthe crown, but was defeated. Darnley, ing this union, headed a rebellion against determined to murder the minion; and jealous of the queen's parasite Rizzio, accordingly burst into the queen's apartment in Holyrood Palace, where she was supping with Rizzio and others, March 9, 1566, and dragged the Italian from the queen's presence, dispatched him on the next imprisoned Mary; but she, effecting her escape, reconciled herself with Murray and pursued her vengeance on Rizzio's murderers, excepting Darnley. June 19 of the same year her only child, afterward James VI. of Scotland and James I. of England, was born. the Earls of Murray and Bothwell, and A plan was now entered into between other nobles, for the assassination of Darnley, then lying ill at Kirk-of-Field, a house near Edinburgh.

The house containing the sick Darnley was blown up by gunpowder on the night of Feb. 9, Vol. VI-Cvc-J MARYBOROUGH MARYLAND 1567, while the queen was attending a tion of 3,000 feet. The Atlantic coast has masquerade at Holyrood Palace. Mary showered honors and favors on Bothwell, one of the prominent actors in the tragedy. His trial was demanded and took place, but merely as a farce. Mary was seized by Bothwell at the head of a strong body of retainers, and conveyed to his castle of Dunbar; but, being permitted to return to Edinburgh, she there created her lover Duke of Orkney, and married him. The great nobles at once formed a combination against the queen, supported by the burghers of the principal cities, and seized the castle of Edinburgh. June 15 the two armies met at Carberry Hill, where the royal troops at once surrendered. Bothwell fled, and the queen was taken to Lochleven Castle and there placed in confinement. On the 25th of the same month she signed her abdication of the crown in favor of her infant son, with the Earl of Murray as regent.

In May, 1568, she succeeded in escaping from Lochleven, and assembling some adherents encounter encountered the regent Murray's army at Langside, near Glasgow, where she was utterly defeated and her cause irretrievably lost. Mary fled to England, and was at first considerately treated by Elizabeth, who later committed her to prison. She was removed to Fotheringay Castle in Northamptonshire in 1586, was declared guilty of treason, and condemned to death. She was brought to the block in Fotheringay Castle, Feb. 8, 1587.