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Mortal enemy, and the present situation of affairs in Scotland afforded her a favourable opportunity, both of revenging the injury and of providing for her own safety--In the year 1568 the Queen of Scots found it was impossible to remain any longer in her in her own Kingdom owing to the civil commotions and the persecutions she particularly indured--She embarked on board a fishing boat in Galloway and landed the same day at Workington in Cumberland about thirty miles from Carlile whence she immediately dispatched a messenger to London, notifying her arrival desiring leave to visit Elizabeth and craving her protection, Elizabeth dispatched Lord Scrope and Sir T Knolles to inform Mary that her requist of being allowed to visit their Sovereign could not be complied with, till she had cleared herself of her husbands [[underline]] murder, [[/underline]] So unexpected a check threw Mary into tears and the necessity of her situation obliged her to submit--Mary was removed to Bolton a seal of Lord Scrope's in Yorkshire-- The confirences were held at York and Hampton
