1 02 memoirs of the earl of Marr. yan. 1 8, 



r.ant*. The king being informed of this accident, 

 ordered Marr to return to Scotland, sending after 

 him, the duke of Lenox, with a warrant to receive 

 the prince, and deliver him to the queen, which was 

 done in the end of May. 



The queen, however, not satisfied with this concef- 

 sion complained, in strong terms, of Marr, and wrote 

 a letter to the king, full of pafsion, which fhe delivered 

 to her almoner Mr John Spottiswood, soon after made 

 archbifhop of Glasgow; but the king knowing the inno- 

 cence, and fidelity of Marr, refused to be troubled 

 with her complaints, saying, that {he ought to forget 

 her resentment when ftie considered, that under God, 

 his peaceable accefsion'to the throne of England was 

 idue to the temper and addrefs of Erlkine. But when 

 the queen received this mefsage, ftie said, in the true 

 spirit of an angry woman, that ihe fhould rather have 

 wiflied never to see England, than to be under obliga- 

 tions to Marr f. 



On the 24th of June, this year, the king gave Marr, 

 as has been mentioned, his discharge for the govern- 

 ment of the prince, full of honourable exprefsions 

 respecting his fidelity and conduct in his education j 

 and having already given him the garter, he gave him 



* Birch's Life of Prince Henry. 

 + It lias been an uniform tradition, that the foundation cf Anne's dis- 

 like to Marr was a unny piece of imprudence of the king's, who 

 Ihould have told Marr, the morning after liis marriage, that he was 

 much surprised at the queen's manner of receiving him, and that he 

 imagined the joys of matrimony were no novelty to her most sacred ma- 

 jesty ! This fancy of the king's, cost afterwards the life of the bonny 



t*rl of Moray. 



" O the bonny eatl of Tvloray, he played at the glove, 



' And the bonny earl of Moray he was the queen's love." j 



