This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818 Excerpt: ...he being appointed, while her highness was under the shameful thraldom of Bothwell; and he being now unfit, when the Queen is at liberty, under the secret council1. Three days after, Morton, Athol, Sir James Balfour, Richardson, the treasurer, and Preston of Craigmillar, ordered Servis de Conde, the Queen"s valet de chambre, to deliver Acheson, the Queen"s coiner, the Queen"s plate, amounting to 74 marks, to be coined, " for " forthsetting her highnesses service"1." We thus may see, that the bondage of Bothwell was lighter than thin air, when compared with the plunder, and oppression, of the secret council, with Morton, her husband"s murderer, for its head g Knox, 410; Spotiswoode, 208-9; Keith, 573-4-5. Keith, 576. " Keith, 379; Knox, 410; Spotiswoode, 208. k Maitland"s Edin....