who a little made the followers of Christ when
killed lie unburied, could not obtain a burial in the kingdom of
Scotland[270].

DAVID RIZIO or Riccio, born at Turin in Savoy, came over, and was
introduced unto queen Mary's musicians (being of that craft) and
complying with her humour in every thing, he was advanced to be one of
her secretaries. But being one of the pope's minions and a deadly enemy
to the cause of Christ in Scotland, he laid continual schemes to ruin
the noble reformers. He laid a plot to murder the good earl of Murray
with his own hand, but it miscarried. He had a principal hand in the
queen's match with Darnly; but soon became his rival, and the queen's
paramour. He exceeded the king in apparel and furniture, and intended to
have cut off the Scots nobility, and brought in a set of foreign
ministers. He counterfeited the king's seal, and nothing could be done
without him at court. He was apprized of his hazard, but nothing could
affright him. Whereupon the king, with James Douglas, Patrick Lindsay,
&c. knowing that he was gone in privily to the queen one night, (as
his custom was) came in upon them, while he was sitting by the queen at
supper. She sought to defend him by the interposition of her body; but
bringing him to an outer chamber, at first they intended to have hanged
him publicly, which would have been a most grateful spectacle to the
people; but being in haste, James Douglas gave him a stroke with his
dagger, which was by the company succeeded, to the number of fifty-three
strokes, and so he soon expired, March 9, 1566[271].

HENRY STUART, son to the earl of Lenox, returned to Scotland 1565, and
was married to the queen; and being a bigotted papist, the reforming
lords opposed his marriage, but were obliged to flee to England. While
matters went well betwixt him and the queen, he was wholly at her
devotion, and at her instigation, cast the Psalms of David into the
fire. But after Rizio's death, the earl of Bothwel becoming the queen's
beloved paramour, she fell in disgust with the king; and he being
misled up in popery, and seeing himself thus forsaken of the queen, and
despised by her faction of the nobility, wrote to the king of France,
that the country was all out of order, because the mass and popery were
not again fully erected in Scotland. But the queen, to be rid of him,
caused to be given him a dose of poison. But being in the prime of
youth, he surmounted the disorder. Being a man