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Chapter 7 Bothwell |
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Soon everyone in Europe heard the news. |
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The Queen of France and the Queen of England wrote angry letters to me. |
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Who killed the King? they asked. |
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I was very unhappy at this time, James. |
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We looked for the killers, |
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but we could not find them. |
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Please believe me, James. |
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The Scots lords are difficult men. |
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Some were friends, some were enemies, |
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but they changed all the time. |
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Many people in Scotland said: |
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'Bothwell killed Lord Darnley. |
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'I heard them, outside the castle, and in the town. |
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But I never believed it. |
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People in Edinburgh sold horrible stories |
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and pictures of Bothwell the same day that Darnley died. |
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It was too soon. |
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Perhaps Darnley's killers wrote these stories about Bothwell, |
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before they killed Darnley. |
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I don't think Lord Bothwell killed your father,James. |
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He was a good friend to me in difficult times. |
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He was a good strong, clever man, |
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and he worked hard. |
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I liked that. |
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A lot of women liked him,I think. |
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Three times that spring, he asked me to marry him. |
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He had a wife, and I could not marry again, so soon. I |
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asked him to wait. |
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Then, on 24th April, |
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I rode out of Edinburgh to the north. |
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I had five or six friends with me. |
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Six miles outside the town, |
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Lord Bothwell met us, with an army. |
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'Why are you here,my lord?'I said. |
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He smiled.' Because I want to meet you, Mary,' |
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he said.'I want you to come with me to my castle. |
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'He rode next to me, |
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and his men rode between me and my friends. |
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I was afraid,and a little excited,too. |
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'But,my lord,you can't do this!' |
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I said.'I don't want to come with you now.' |
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'But I want you, Mary,'he said. |
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'Your friends can't stop me. |
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I love you, and I want to marry you. |
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What's wrong with that?' |
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I said nothing.What could I say? |
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I liked him,and he had an army. |
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I had only six friends. |
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So I rode with him to his castle in Dunbar, |
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and stayed there two weeks. |
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And then… He was a strong man, and I was only a woman. |
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And I did like him, James. |
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I liked him very much. |
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After two weeks in Dunbar, |
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Bothwell and I rode back to Edinburgh. |
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His wife did not want him, |
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and was happy to divorce him. |
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So,on 15th May 1567, I married him. |
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He was a good man, James. |
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A much better man than your father. |
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I needed a strong man to help me rule the country. |
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But I was wrong. I understand that now. |
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All the Scots lords were afraid of Bothwell, |
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and many of them were his enemies. |
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They had an army, and on 15th June, |
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Bothwell and I rode out to fight them. |
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We met them at Carberry Hill. |
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It was a hot day, and the two big armies stood, |
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and looked, and waited. |
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Their army had a big flag with a picture of your poor dead father, |
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Darnley, on it. |
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Under the picture, there were the words |
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'Find my killers, oh God.' |
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'Come on, my lord,'I said to Bothwell.' |
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Our army is better than theirs-let's fight them!' |
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Both well rode up and down, and talked to his men. |
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But they didn't want to fight. |
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They talked, and looked at the flag, and waited. |
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Then some of them walked home. |
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At five o'clock that evening Lord Kirkcaldy rode from his army to talk to us. |
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He said to me,'My lady, leave your husband, |
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and come with us. |
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We don't want men to die.' |
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And so, because our men didn't want to fight, |
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I went with him. |
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It was a very bad day for me. |
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They took me back to Edinburgh, |
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and people in the streets screamed at me: |
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'Kill the woman! |
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She sleeps with her husband's killer! |
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We want James to be King! Kill her now!' |
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I was unhappy, and afraid, |
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and I was pregnant again. |
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They took me to Lochleven Castle, |
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and put me in a room like a prison. |
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There, I did not eat for two weeks, |
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and Bothwell's children- |
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there were two babies-were born dead. |
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I nearly died too-I was so angry and tired and ill. |
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Then, one day after the babies died, |
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Lord Lindsay gave me a letter. |
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It said: |
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I,Mary, Queen of Scots, |
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give the kingdom of Scotland to my son, James. |
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From today, James is the new King of Scots. |
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But because he is a child, the Earl of Moray, |
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my half-brother, can rule the country for him. |
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Because I was afraid, and tired, |
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and ill, I wrote my name on the letter: |
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Mary. But it is not important, |
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James,it doesn't change anything. |
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I am Queen of Scots, not you. |
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That letter changes nothing. |
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Bothwell went over the sea, |
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and died in a prison in Denmark. |
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I was a prisoner in Lochleven for a year. |
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A lot of people in Europe were angry about that. |
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Queen Elizabeth wrote to the Earl of Moray. |
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'You cannot keep a Queen in prison,'she said. |
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'It is very wrong!'I was pleased about that. |
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But Moray didn't listen. |
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Lord Douglas lived in the castle, |
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and his young son,William,liked me. |
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One day, there was a wedding in the castle. |
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People sang and danced and drank. |
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William Douglas gave me some old women's clothes. |
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I put the clothes on, |
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and walked quietly out of the castle with him. |
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He shut the castle door behind us, |
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to keep his father's friends in. |
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Then we got on some horses, |
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and rode away through the night. |
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All my friends came back to me. |
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Soon I had a big army. |
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'Mary is our Queen again!' |
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people said.'Give her back her son!' |
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You were in Earl Moray's castle, |
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James, so I came to fight him. |
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I rode with my army to Langside, |
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near Glasgow.And there… |
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There, James… |
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There, my son, I lost the fight. |
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I am so sorry. I had many good, |
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strong men in my army, |
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but Earl Moray's men were stronger. |
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Many of my men died, and some ran away. |
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After the fight, I ran away too. |
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I did not want to go to prison again. |
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So I rode south, to England. |
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'Queen Elizabeth wants to help me,'I thought. |
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'She understands. |
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She wrote to Moray and she is a Queen,like me. |
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I can come back to Scotland with her army, |
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kill Moray, and find my baby son James. |
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I am in England but I am free.I can try again.' |
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I was wrong about that, too. |
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Very wrong. |