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18 on her part, carried her to the strong Castle of Dunbar in East Lothian. Mary, soon afterwards with the most unpardonable indiscretion, came to Edinburgh, and publicly married this profligate and ambitious nobleman.

But this ill-fated marriage, instead of promoing Mary's happiness, had the contrary effect, so Bothwell used her grossly ill, and being disappointed in getting the young prince into his keeping, used such upbraiding language to her, that she was heard to pray for a knife to stab herself rather than endure his cruel treatment. To add to her distress, many of the most powerful nobles rose in arms, and avowed their determination to rescue the young prince,—revenge the death of Darnley,—and remove Bothwell from his usurped power.

Bothwell and Mary assembled a body of troops to oppose this confederacy, and the two armies met on Carberry Hill, seven miles to the eastward of Edinburgh. The troops of Mary were, however, ill affected to her cause, and Bothwell, after various attempts to animate their courage, was persuaded by the Queen to leave the field. Mary, upon a promise of kind treatment, delivered herself up to the Laird of Grange, who conducted her to Edinburgh.

As the unhappy Queen approached the capital, led as it were in triumph, the most coarse and