where he subsisted during some time by piracy.
He was pursued thither by Grange, and his ship was taken, with several
of his servants; who afterwards discovered all the circumstances of the
king's murder, and were punished for the crime.[***] Bothwell himself
escaped in a boat, and found means to get a passage to Denmark, where
he was thrown into prison, lost his senses, and died miserably about ten
years after; an end worthy of his flagitious conduct and behavior.

* Keith, p. 402. Spotswood, p. 207.

** Melvil, p. 83, 84.

*** Anderson, vol. ii. p. 165, 166, etc.

The queen of Scots, now in the hands of an enraged faction met with such
treatment as a sovereign may naturally expect from subjects, who have
their future security to provide for, as well as their present animosity
to gratify. It is pretended that she behaved with a spirit very
little suitable to her condition, avowed her inviolable attachment to
Bothwell,[*] and even wrote him a letter, which the lords intercepted,
wherein she declared, that she would endure any extremity, nay, resign
her dignity and crown itself, rather than relinquish his affections.[**]
The malecontents, finding the danger to which they were exposed in case
Mary should finally prevail, thought themselves obliged to proceed
with rigor against her; and they sent her next day under a guard to the
Castle of Lochlevin, situated in a lake of that name. The mistress of
the house was mother to the earl of Murray; and as she pretended to have
been lawfully married to the late king of Scots, she naturally bore
an animosity to Mary, and treated her with the utmost harshness and
severity.

* Keith, p. 419.

** Melvil, p. 84.

Elizabeth, who was fully informed of all those incidents, seemed touched
with compassion towards the unfortunate queen; and all her fears and
jealousies being now laid asleep, by the consideration of that ruin and
infamy in which Mary's conduct had involved her, she began to reflect
on the instability of human affairs, the precarious state of royal
grandeur, the danger of encouraging rebellious subjects; and she
resolved to employ her authority for alleviating the calamities of
her unhappy kinswoman. She sent Sir Nicholas Throgmorton ambassador
to Scotland, in order to remonstrate both with Mary and the associated
lords; and she gave him instructions, which, though mixed with some
lofty pretensions, were full of that good sense which was so na