October 8. Complaint of the Queen of Scots Against the Earl of Murray
Goodall , vol. ii. p. 128, from Cott. Lib. Calig., C. i. 197.
That James, Earl of Morton, John, Earl of Mar, Alexander, Earl of Glencairn, the Lords Howe, Lindsay, Ruthven, Sempill, Cathcart, Ochiltree, with others their assisters, assembled in arms a great part of the Queen’s grace’s subjects, declared by their proclamations it was for her Grace’s relief, beset the road in her passage betwixt her Grace’s castles of Dunbar and Edinburgh, there took her most noble person, committed her in ward in her own place of Lochleven,... passed to the castle of Stirling, and made there fashion of crowning of her son the Prince....
James, Earl of Murray, took upon him the name of the Regent,... intromitted with the whole strengths, munitions, jewels, and patrimony of the crown, as well property as casualty....
MURRAY’S APOLOGY FOR THE REVOLUTION