S Memoirs of the Earl of Marr. Jan. 4. 



and not remove him to any place whatsoever, with- 

 out the knowledge and consent of the council : 

 That he should not receive any within the 

 house, whom he knew not to be well aflfected to 

 the king, admitting an earl, with two only in 

 train, a lord baron with one only, and gentlemen 

 •without any attendant : That Maister George 

 Buchanan and Maister Peter Young, should- con- 

 tinue his Majesty's instructors, and no others ad- 

 mitted without the council's consent, nor any reli- 

 gious exercise be kept within the castle, but that 

 which the parliament had approved : And for the 

 observation of these articles, the earls of Athole, 

 Angus, Argyle, and Montrose, with the lords 

 Ruthven, and others, gave tlieir bond and obliga- 

 tion ; as also, for the safe delivery of tlie castle 

 of Edinburgh with its muniments. 



After this, a convention was held at Stirling on 

 the 25th of July, Avhere there convened of the 

 clergy, eight bishops, and as many abbots or 

 commendators, of the nobility, nine earls and 

 eleven lord-barons, and many commifsioners of 

 boroughs, the earl of Morton attended at the par- 

 ticular desire of the king ; where his Majesty an- 

 nounced his acceptation of the supreme govern- 

 ment, and his resolution to hold the meeting of the 

 estates at Stirling for his security, and not at Edin- 

 . burgh. After many protests of the legal parlia- 

 ment summoned to meet at the capital on the tenth 

 of Jaly, after its rising, the king published a pro- 

 clamation, and amnesty, declaring': " That it was 

 iis desire to remain at Stirling, and be served "hj 



