Note 32 — Chapter I

Act. Parl. Scot. ii. 534. The following memorandum, endorsed “the manner how the Scottis be divided, 1560,” was recently found among the MSS. at Longleat, and is now printed in the Hamilton Papers, vol. ii. p. 748. “The names of all the noblemen temporall and spirituall of the congregacion of Scotlande:—The Duke of Chateaurialt; the Erle of Arren his sonne; the Lord James priour of St. Andros; the Erle of Arguile; the Erle of Glencarne; the Erle of Rothos; the Erle of Sutherland; the Erle of Mountithe; the Lorde Riven; the Lorde Boide; the Lorde Offoltrie; the Master of Lindsoye; the Master of Maxwell. The lordes and noblemen newters:—The Erle of Huntleye; the Erle of Catnes; the Erle of Athell; the Erle Marshall; the Erle of Morton and Angus; the Erle of Arrell; the Erle of Casiles; the Erle of Eglenton; the Erle of Mountroes; the Lord Erskin; the Lord Dromond; the Lord Hume; the Lorde Rose; the Lorde Krighton; the Lord Liveston; the Lord Somervall. Dowptfull to whether parte they will incline. The lordes of the Quene’s partye:—The Erle of Bodwell; the Lorde Seton; the Lorde Fleminge; the Lord Semple; the Bishopp of St. Andros; the Priour of Collingham; the Abbot of Holly Roode Howse; with all the bisshoppes and spiritualtye of the realme. The Shires as they be dewided on the one parte and thother:—The Marshe, Tividale, Annerdale, Lowden, Sterlingeshire, Galawaye, Caricke, Guile, Cunningham, Cliddesdale; all these and the people therein are newters, onles a certaine of every shire wich kepe themselfes close. Fife, Angus, Arguile, Straterne, and the Mernes; most parte Protestantes. The northe land hath promised to take parte, but not yet assured; in whose handes standeth litell helpe, wich side so ever they fall into.” In Mr. Fraser Tytler’s History of Scotland, vol. ix. p. 425, a paper is printed entitled “The Present State of the Nobility in Scotland, 1st July 1592.” It gives a list of the Scottish peers with a note of whether they were Protestant or Catholic, and is well worth comparing with the list in the Hamilton Papers. In the original, Mr. Tytler says, the names of the Catholics are marked in Burleigh’s own handwriting.