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Chap. XXVII.
BOTHWELL’S CONFESSION.
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by purchase; last of all, the Queen Mary—Mrs. Anna
was of opinion that he was not at all a person to be
depended on; he therefore promised her the yearly
allowance of one hundred dollars from Scotland, and gave
her a pink, with anchors, cables, and other
appurtenances.”
The Lady Anna resided in the palace of the
Governor, her kinsman : under existing circumstances the
meeting must have been singularly unpleasant.
On the 30th of September comes our last notice—
“ The earl was conducted to a ship and led prisoner to
Denmark, that is Malmø-huus.” This assertion is not
quite correct, as Bothwell remained in Copenhagen until
the 30th of December, when he was consigned to the
custody of Biørn Kaas, Governor of Malmø-huus, together
with his companion, Captain Clarke. Here he remained,
well treated, with a liberal allowance from the King
of Denmark, indulging in potations with his comrade
which later brought him to death’s door. Many
were the requests from the Queen of England and the
Scottish lords to Frederic, demanding that the earl
should be handed over to their custody, to which the
Danish Sovereign always replied by a refusal. “If
they chose to proceed against him, they were at liberty
so to do, but judged he must be by Danish laws.” It
is related how, after a season, being brought to a state
of weakness from the effects of a dangerous illness, his
conscience tormented by anguish and remorse, he made,
in the presence of several witnesses, a confession of
his share of Darnley’s assassination, exonerating Queen
Mary from any participation or knowledge of his crime.
Mary, in a letter to her ambassador on the subject,
writes the names of those before whom the attestation
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