220 The English Raids on Dumfries in 1570. 



West. No love had been lost between them and the late Regent. 

 The latter had attempted, unsuccessfully it appears, the year 

 after Langside, to crush them, with other supporters of Queen 

 Mary, because of their refusal to acknowledge his government. 

 On " the xixth day [of June, 1568] they [the Regent's party] 

 remayned in Dumfries and the castle thereof was offred them, 

 which apperteyneth to my Lord Maxewell. . . My Lord 

 Maxwell, the Lorde of Johnstone, Cowhill, Lowinvar, with them 

 the nomber of a thowsand men, was in Dumfreis tuo dayes before 

 and spent all the meate and drink that was readye, as also con- 

 sulted against the Regentis commynge."* The Queen's party, 

 in fact, endeavoured to make a lengthy visit impossible. It was 

 on this occasion that the. Regent ordered Terregles House to be 

 dismantled, but on being informed by the Laird of Drumlanrig 

 that Lord Herries intended rebuilding it " The Regent swore, 

 he scorned to be a barrowman to his old walls and so it was 

 safe."^ In March Cecil prepared a memorial for Elizabeth, 

 recommending, as Mary's faction was rapidly increasing, that 

 the army be instructed to enter Scotland and " chastise her 

 Majesty's rebels."^ 



On the 10th of April a convention of the Catholic party met 

 at Linlithgow and " they began to treat of that which they did 

 whisper in secreit, to witt, to raise warre against the English that 

 the murther of the King and the Regent might be ather forgottin 

 or men's mindes being bussied with the warres, might languish 

 in the pursute therof."'' On the same date Elizabeth published 

 a printed declaration of herintention to invade Scotland, and made 

 her reasons clear. She assured " in the word of a prince, all 

 manner of persons that her intentioun and certane meaning is, to 

 use and treat all the subjects of Scotland als lovinglie and peace- 

 ablie as her owne, excepting onlie suche notorious outlawes, 

 theeves, enemies, and peace-breakers, as have lately with her 

 rebells invaded and spoiled her realm and such others of that 



4. Progress of the Regent Moray, 1568. Hume Brown's 

 " Scotland before 1700," p. 201. 



5. Lord Herries, Historical Memoirs, 1836. 



6. Hatfield Calendar, 465. 



7. Cal'derwood, Hisftory of the Kirk of Scotland. Wodrow 

 Soc, 1843. II., 563-4. 



