179^* Memoirs of the Karl of Marr. 9 



who continued faithfully and honourably to attach 

 himself to Morton ; though it brought him into 

 discredit at court, and that his affairs were disor- 

 dered by the great expences his father had incur- 

 red during his short administration of the regencyf . 

 [To be continued.^ 



OBSERVATIONS 



ON THE 



HISTORT OF PORTUGAL. . 

 I KNOW pf no period of hiitory, on which the pen 

 of a man of talents could be employed with a bet- 

 ter prospect of succefs, than that part of the his- 



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* Dealings of William Randolph with the Earl of Angus Cotton 

 lib. C3I, 6. foJ. 135. 1°. Martii 1580. 



" And because, that my Lord of Mar hath noe Icfse confidence ia 

 your Lordshippe (Lord Burleigh,) he requyrts your answer by writ^ 

 ing to the poynt following. 



" The late Earl engaged allhislandes and plate for grete somes of 

 tnoney, during the tyme of his Government which the Kinge re- 

 quiiTS now at his hand." 



With the articles wherein this memorial is contained, Mr John 

 Colvill the Kings master of requests and pedagogue to the E;!e cf 

 Mjr, was fent from the Earl of Angus by the medium of the Laird 

 of Wedderburn, 



The Earls having an enterprise in view against the faction of 

 d'Aubigny, and cajit-iin Stewart had obtained Randolph's ring, a3 a 

 secret taken of Elizabeth's support, which ring was brought back 

 from Lord Hundson at Benuck by Coloin. The whole of this me- 

 morial in the Cotton library, entitled the dealings of Mr R^ndoJoli 

 with Angus, &c. is extreipcfy circumstantial and curious. I have a 

 fair m.inuscript copy of all that relates to our Scottish history, during 

 the yeari 1580 and 81, in the Cotton library. I do not recollect, 

 • hethcr these lines have been yet printed. If not they ars wcl.l 

 ^rtJ)y ot thc.Prefc. 



