206 EEOORDS AND EEMINISCENCES OF GOODWOOD 



obliged to flee, retires to Dunbar Castle ; the Queen, disguised in 

 a mean habit, surrenders herself into the hands of the nobles 

 in convention, of whom sentence was pronounced upon the two 

 persons principally concerned in the above-mentioned murder." 



It is evident tliat this picture was executed with 

 great care and expense, so as to place the facts on 

 record for posterity with much minuteness, the Earl 

 of Lennox taking every possible precaution that what 

 he regarded as a legacy to the King his grandson 

 should be as perfect as possible. The Earl of Lennox 

 was himself slain at Stirling in 1571, whilst Regent 

 of Scotland; and the Countess his wife died in 

 London, in 1578. Their son afterwards was created 

 Earl of Lennox by the King. This remarkable and 

 interesting picture was sent by the Earl Matthew to 

 his brother John, Lord of Aubigne, in France, where 

 it had remained in the Castle of Aubigne ; the title of 

 Aubisrne becomins; extinct at the death of the Lord of 

 Aubigne (Duke of Richmond), who died in 1672, the 

 honour and estates, with the castle, reverted to the 

 King of France, Louis XIV., who soon after erected 

 the same into a dukedom. The fifth Duke of Rich- 

 mond succeeding to that honour and estate, found, 

 when he went over into France soon after, among 

 other family pictures in his castle there, this paint- 

 ing, which he caused to be brought over to England. 

 There was a replica or duplicate of this picture at 

 Kensington, which was presented to her Majesty 



