One person who fell into the hands of this infamous cleric was Margaret, the second daughter of Charles, Lord Glencardine, a beautiful girl of nineteen.

Because she would not betray her lover, she was so cruelly tortured in the Cardinal's palace that she expired, after suffering fearful agony, and her body was sent back to Glencardine with an insulting message to her father, who at once swore to be avenged.

The king had so far resigned the conduct of the kingdom into the hands of his Eminence that nothing save armed force could oppose him.

Setoun knew that a union between Henry VIII.

and James V.would be followed by the downfall of the papal power in Scotland, and therefore he laid a skilful plot.