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her own safety--In the Year 1568 the Queen of Scots found it was impossible to remain any longer in her own kingdom, owning 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 F Knolles to inform many that
