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had searched for these lairds in vain but arrested six innocent poor men, who also depended on him. He hoped she could arrange a fair trial for them in
Edinburgh or Perth, especially because Lord Ruthven favoured the Drummonds. He was coming to see her, but had fallen ill and wrote from
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in May 1568, and in July became once more a supporter of Mary, voting for her divorce from
Bothwell (1569). In March 1570 he formed with other lords the joint letter to Elizabeth asking for the queen's intercession and supporting Mary's claims, and was present at the convention held at
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in 1561 he was appointed one of the twelve privy councillors, and on account of his religion obtained a greater share the queen's favour than either Murray or
Maitland. He was one of the principal supporters of the
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on 15 March 1580 and was said to have confessed that Morton had Atholl poisoned. Affleck blamed another captive associate of Morton, Sanders Jordan, (Alexander
Jardine). It was thought that
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took the government into his own hands and dissolved the regency, and Atholl and Argyll, to the exclusion of Morton, were made members of the council, while on the 29th Atholl was appointed
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in hopes of assistance from that quarter, then advanced to
Stirling with a large force, when a compromise was arranged, the three earls being all included in the government.
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obtained the chief power in the government, successfully protecting Mary and
Darnley from Murray's attempts to regain his ascendancy by force of arms. According to
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he openly attended mass in the queen's chapel, and was especially trusted by Mary in her project of reinstating Roman
Catholicism. The fortress of
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on the occasion of the reconciliation, Atholl was seized with sudden illness, and despite the attentions of the court physicians
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and in attaining his guardianship of James. Atholl and Argyll, who were now corresponding with
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was placed in his keeping, and in 1565 he was made lieutenant of the north of
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in April in opposition to the assembly of the king's party at
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in October 1562, and he supported the projected marriage of
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and Robert Campbell of Glenorchy, grandfather of Sir
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662:(Edinburgh, 1836), p. 320: Lord Lindsay,
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303:Annabell Murray, Countess of Mar
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