In spite of the fact that she did everything possible to disgrace herself more deeply than ever, such as pensioning the assassin of her brother Moray, her sufferings made her the martyr of sentimentalists, and pieces of embroidery or other possessions of the beautiful queen have been handed down as the precious relics of a saint.[2] All the murderous intrigues just narrated contributed thoroughly to disgrace the Catholic and royalist party.

The revolution had left society dissolved, full of bloodthirsty and false men.

But though the Protestants had their share of such villains, they also had the one consistent and public-spirited element in the kingdom, namely Knox and his immediate followers.

Moray was a man rather above the average respectability and he confirmed the triumph of Protestantism in the Lowlands in the few short years preceding his assassination in January, 1570.

But by this time the revolution had been so firmly accomplished that nothing could shake it.