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Chap. XXVII. BOTHWELL IN NORWAY. 411
among the English merchants. In their endeavours,
during a terrific storm, to escape from an armament sent
in their pursuit, two of his vessels managed to enter the
harbour of Kamsund, in Norway. Bothwell here
declared himself to be the husband of the Queen of Scots,
and demanded to be conducted into the presence of
the King of Denmark. Such is the account given by
English historians. Now, however, that Bothwell is
safe arrived in Norway, it is as well to consult the
account given by the Danes themselves. In the ‘ Liber
Bergensis Capituli ’ we find the following notice:—
u Sept. 2, a.d. 1568, came the King’s ship ‘ David,’
upon which Christian of Aalborg was head man; she
had taken prisoner a count from Scotland of the name
of Jacob Hebroe of Botwile, who first was made Duke
of the Orkneys and Shetland, and lately married the
Queen of Scotland, and after he was suspected of having
been in the counsel to blow up the king: they first
accused the queen, and then the count, but he made
his escape, and came to Norway, and was afterwards
taken to Denmark by the king’s ship ‘ David.’ ”
The accusation of piracy made against the Scottish
earl was never credited by Frederic II. or his
advisers. Bothwell had hired two “ pinks” when in
Shetland of Gerhard Hemlin, the Bremois, for fifty silver
dollars a month, commanded by David Wodt, a noted
pirate, in which he arrived on the coast of Norway, in a
miserable plight, his own vessel having returned to
Shetland with his valuables on board to fetch his people.
Erik Rosenkrantz, the Governor, thought necessary to
summon a jury of the most respectable people of the
town, “ twelve brewers of the bridge,” to inquire into
the earl’s case, and how it was he had become associated
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