156 The HISTO tY of the PURITANS. Chap. IV ueen form herfelf better, by frequenting fermons, and conferring with learned Elizbeeth, men : But her majefly gave no ear to their counfels. t ,5 In the year 5564. the queen married Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Birth ofKL. who was joined with her in the government. By him the was brought James t to bed of a fon June 15, 1565. afterwards names I. King of England; and while fhe was with child of him, the receiveda fright by her hufband's coming into her chamber with his fervants, and putting to death her fa- vourite David Rizzo, an Italian mufician, who was fitting with her at table. This was fhid to have fuch an influence upon the prince, who was born of her, that he never loved the fight of a fword. Soon after this, the king himfelf was_ found, murdered in a garden, the houle in which the murder was committed, being blown up with gun-powder, to prevent the difcovery. Upon the king's death, the earl of Bothwel be- eame the queen's favourite, and as loon as he had obtained a divorce :tom his lawful wife, the took him into her marriage-bed, to her very great infamy, and the regret of the whole Scots nation, who took up arms to revenge the late king's murder, and diflòlve the prefent in- Rapin, ceftuous marriage. When the two armies were ready to engage, Both- P. 357. zeielfled to Dunbar; and the queen being apprehenfive her foldiers'would not fight in fuch an infamous caule, furrender'd herfelf to the confede- rates, who Phut her up in the cattle of Lock-Levin, and obliged her to re- fign the crown to her young fon, under the regency of the earl of Mur.. ray : From hence fhe made her efcape into England, -in the year 1568, where the was detained prifoner by queen Elizabeth almoft 58 years, and then put to death. Bothwel turned pirate, and being taken by the Danes, was (hut up for ten years in a noifom prifon in Denmark, till he loft his fenfes and died mad. Kirk dijei- The earl of Murray being regent of Scotland, convened a parliament ?line Oa- and affembly at Edinburgh, in which the pope's authority was again dif- blJhed, charged, and the adof parliament of the year a 56o. for renouncing the jurifdidtion of the court of Rome, was confirmed, and all ads paffed in former reigns, for the fupport ofpop /b idolatry, were annulled. The new confeflïon of faith was ratified, and the proteftant minifters, and thofe of their communion, declared to be the only true and holy kirk within that realm. The examination and admif$on of minifters, is declared to be only in the power and difpofition of the church; with a Caving claufe for lay-patrons. By another aEi, the kings at their coronation for the future, are to take an oath to maintain the reformed religion then profefl'ed: And by another, none but fuch as profefs the reformed religion, are capa- ble of being judges or prodtors, or of pradlifing in any of the courts of juftice; except thofe who held offices hereditary, or for life, The
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