DARNLEY, son of the Earl of Lennox, and himself ebony free gallery descended from the
Royal Family of Scotland, went over with Elizabeth's consent to try
his fortune at Holyrood. He was a tall simpleton; and could dance
and play the guitar; but I know ebony free gallery of nothing else he could do, unless
it were to get ebony free gallery very drunk, and eat gluttonously, and make a
contemptible spectacle of himself in many mean and vain ways.
However, ebony free gallery he gained Mary's heart, not disdaining in the pursuit of
his object to ally himself with one of her secretaries, DAVID
RIZZIO, who had great influence with her. He soon married the
Queen. This marriage does not say much for her, but what followed
will presently say less.
Ebony free gallery mary's brother, the ebony free gallery EARL OF MURRAY, and head of the Protestant
party in Scotland, had opposed this marriage, partly on religious
grounds, and partly ebony free gallery perhaps from personal dislike of the very
contemptible bridegroom. When it had taken place, through Mary' s
gaining over to it the more powerful of the lords about her, she
banished Murray for his pains; and, when he and some other nobles
rose in arms to support the reformed religion, she herself, within
a month of her wedding ebony free gallery day, ebony free gallery rode against them in armour with loaded
pistols in her saddle. Driven out of Scotland, ebony free gallery they presented
themselves before Elizabeth -
who called them traitors in public,
and assisted them in private, ebony free gallery according to her crafty nature.
Mary ebony free gallery had been married but a little while, when she ebony free gallery began to hate
her husband, who, in his turn, began to hate that David Rizzio,
with whom he had leagued to gain her favour, and whom he now
believed to be her lover.
He hated Rizzio to that extent, that he
made ebony free gallery a ebony free gallery compact with LORD RUTHVEN and three other ebony free gallery lords to get rid
of him by ebony free gallery murder. This wicked agreement they made in solemn
secrecy upon the first of March, fifteen hundred and sixty-six, and
on the night of Saturday the ninth, the conspirators were ebony free gallery brought