“ The Scottish lords felt that he was a dangerous enemy to the commonwealth, and in 1569 he was arrested at Stirling for complicity in Darnley’s murder, but was liberated shortly after by an artifice of Kirkaldy of Grange. After the murder of the regent Murray he and Kirkaldy became the leaders of the Queen’s party, in consequence of which he was declared a rebel, deprived of his offices and hands by the regent Morton, and besieged, along with Kirkaldy, in Edinburg Castle. ”

“ In 1564 he held a long debate with Knox on the claims of the Reformed Church to be independent of the State In 1566 he took part in the plot against Rizzo, after whose assassination he was proscribed and obliged to seek shelter for some months in obscurity. ”