They had been furnished with garments suitable to their condition, and Harry was treated by the earl with the greatest kindness and courtesy.

He often conversed with him as to the state of politics and of military affairs in England, and expressed himself as sanguine that he should be able to restore the authority of the king in Scotland.
"These sour men of the conventicles have ever been stiff-necked and rebellious," he said, "and have enforced their will upon our monarchs.

I have not forgotten," he went on, striking the hilt of his sword angrily, "the insults which were put upon Queen Mary when she was preached to and lectured publicly by the sour fanatic Knox, and was treated, forsooth, as if she had been some trader's daughter who had ventured to laugh on a Sunday.

Her son, too, was kept under the control of these men until he was summoned to England.

It is time that Scotland were rid of the domination of these knaves, and if I live I will sweep them from the land.