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Though she seemed to make this concession to Mary she refused her the liberty of sending any ambassador of her own; and that princess could easily conjecture, from this circumstance, what would be the result of the pretended negotiation. MS. in the Advocates' Library, A. 3, 28, p. 401, from the Cott Lib. Calig. c. 9. The affairs of Scotland remained not long in the present situation.
The regent answered that he would be good to the king, to his brother, and to their mother; but that as for Angus, he "would not dalye with no traitor." * * Cotton MS. Calig. No sooner had Margaret given up her children, than she began to manoeuvre how to steal them back and spirit them over the Border.
That she should be reputed baseborn cannot be avoided, except the queen will relinquish the "advoutrous" company with him that is not, nor may not be, of right her husband.* * Calig. The individual here mentioned was Harry Stuart, with whom Margaret had contracted a secret marriage, having by dint of perjury and a tissue of lies, obtained a declaration of invalidity against her union with Angus.
It was a copy of an agreement between Margaret and the Duke of Albany, but the manner in which it came to be enclosed in her letter never transpired, though it was thought that the packet had been opened by a spy, and the paper inserted, in order to ruin her prospects with her brother. * Calig. B 1, 209, 21st April 1524. The enclosed document ran thus:
* Queen Margaret to Henry VI II., 23rd November 1514; MS. Cott., Calig. B 1, 164; Brit. Mus. As a result of this policy, Margaret at last began to find her position intolerable, and she, no less than her enemies looked forward to the duke's arrival as a means of extricating herself from a labyrinth of difficulties.
Claudius Drusus invaded Germany four times, 742-3, and finally lost his life by falling from his horse on his return, cf. Dio. Libb. 54. 55. Suet. Tib. 9. seq. Germanicus, son of Drusus, made four campaigns in Germany, A.D. 14-16, cf. Ann. B. 1. and 2. C. Caesaris. Caligula, cf. Suet. Calig.; T. His. 4, 15. Discordiae armorum.
She had "liever be dead than live among the Scots," and she entreats that no peace may be renewed, unless "some good may be taken," that she may live at ease. * Calig. Ibid. Wolsey was not sparing in his remarks on the queen's double-dealing, the facts of which had all been disclosed to him by spies.
In the event of her causing James V, to "come forth" to Edinburgh, he has no doubt that if the king will command his subjects on their allegiance to take his part, the most of them will do so, especially the Commons, who must be roused to drive the French to Dunbar. The Earl of Surrey will be ready to give assistance.* * Calig.
She, of course, passed on all that she thus learned to Henry and Wolsey. * Dacre to Wolsey; Calig. Margaret was entertained for a whole year in pomp and splendour at the English court, feasts and revels succeeding each other in bewildering magnificence luxury in vivid contrast to the misery which she had undergone during the first months after her flight from Scotland.
* Cotton MS., Calig. B 2, 341; Brit. Mus. Albany to Dacre,10th August 1515; R.O. The good understanding between the regent and the queen was first broken by his summons to her to deliver up the royal children into his custody, a cruel but necessary proceeding, since the regency was inseparable from the governorship of the king and the next heir.
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