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th a t he should be delivered up to them to be taken
back to Scotland, there to suffer d e a th , or th at he
should be capitally punished in D enm ark.
T he
R egent, m o reo v e r, strengthened his dem and by re
presenting h im self as the b u lw ark o f the
Protestant
cause in Scotland, and th a t D enm ark ought to m ake
comm on cause w ith E ngland and Scotland against
the Catholic p o w e rs, S pain and F ra n c e , which
aim ed a t the to ta l extirm ination o f P ro testan tism .
" F re d e rik , th u s acted upon by pow erful
m otives on both sid e s, resolved to do nothing
h a stily , b u t in the first place to rem ove B othw ell
from C openhagen to the castle of M alm ø in Sw eden,
w hich a t th a t tim e belonged to D enm ark : and there
he w as detained from the beginning o f the y e ar
1 56 8 till the y ear 1 573 . A t M alm ø B othw ell w as
still h o n o u rab ly tr e a te d , a n d , although g reat care
w as taken that' he should n o t escape, m uch liberty
w as g ran ted him , and free intercourse w ith such of
his coun trym en as chose to visit him . In the m ean
w hile the successive Scottish R egents w ere in
d efatigable in sending envoys to D enm ark claim ing
B othw ell a t the han d s o f F red erik , whose claim s
even Queen E lizabeth su ppo rted in several energetic
letters to th e D an ish K ing.
On the other hand,
the K ing of F ra n c e and the Queen D ow ager (Cath.
di Med.) ceased n o t , th roug h th eir E nvoy at Co
penhagen , M. le C hevalier de D a n tz a y , to en treat
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