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Chap. XXVII.
DEATH OF BOTHWELL.
415
criminal: though of that no documentary evidence
exists, it may turn up some day. M. de Dantzay writes
word to Charles IX. that the King of Denmark, up to
the present time, had well treated the Earl Bothwell,
but a few days since had caused him to be put “en
une fort maulvaise et estroite prison.” In the month
of November, the same year, he again announces, “ le
Comte de Baudouel, Ecossais, est aussi decedé.”
Bothwell, however, did not die till April 19th, 1578.
According to the chaplain of Draxholm, Frederic,
tormented by the demands of Queen Elizabeth and the
Scotch Regent for his deliverance into their hands,
allowed the report of his death to be circulated, and so
put an end to all worry on the subject.*
In the chronicle of Frederic II.’s reign, Resen, under
the year 1578, after stating that Frederic II. caused
the dead body of his father to be removed from Odense
to Roskilde, continues, “ At that very time the Scottish
Earl Botwell also died, after a long imprisonment at
Draxholm, and was buried at Faareveile.” t
That the Scottish queen, in her damp prison of
Fotheringay, receiving her intelligence in secret, should
have been misinformed as to the Christian names of the
* I. Les Affaires du Comte de Bodwel, Duc des Isles d’Orquenay,
ou Relation, adressée au Roi de Dannemark, de sa Persecution et de
ses Aventures, avec les causes des Troubles en Ecosse depuis 1559
jusqu’en 1568, donnée à Copenliaguen la veille des Rois 1568.
f According to an old MS. in the Royal Library at Copenhagen,
Captain Clarke died in the month of May, 1576, also at Draxholm; this
it is supposed may have added to the confusion as regards the date of
Bothwell’s decease. In the archives (De la Gardie collection) there are
letters from James L, Anne, her secretary Fowler, as well as the two
Melvilles, dates 1594 and 1595, to Charles Barnekow, governor of
Malmø, about the Bothwell rebellion. “ Bothwell s’est retire en
France,” writes James. Was that Bothwell’s natural son?
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