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to warn her husband of a plot for his assassination, but the warning was unheeded. Wood continued working as the special "serviteur" of Agnes Keith who was pregnant, and had helped arrange Moray's funeral, and made the contract for the Regent's tomb . Agnes Keith had been seeking permission for John
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he used indirect methods to obtain from the Regent the bishopric of Moray. On his return to
Scotland he gave a report to the Privy Council of his proceedings, and on the motion of the Regent, he was thanked and discharged. Wood also worked through the inventories of the queen with her servant
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within six days, and failing to do so, he was denounced a rebel. He was then deprived of the office of extraordinary Lord of
Session, to which, by the title of Tulliedavie, he had been appointed ; and he was not again restored to it except nominally. During the rebellion Wood was sent as
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and took several items to
England. On Queen Mary's escape to England, after Langside, he was sent by the regent, in June 1568, "to resolve the queen of England of anything she" stood "doubtful unto." The Earl of Murray declared that John Wood, had copies and translations of letters into the
324:(Robert Lekprevick: Stirling, 1571), wrote that Wood was assassinated "for na uther caus, bot for being ane gude servand to the crowne and to the Regent his maister". Buchanan also wrote that Wood was slain by "boucheouris counductit out of Tevidaill", butchers brought from Teviotdale".
128:, and at the first General Assembly of the kirk in December 1560 he was selected as one of those at St. Andrews "best qualified for preaching of the word and ministering of the sacraments." Wood accompanied Lord James in his embassy to Queen Mary in France in 1561; and
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After the return of Moray to
Scotland in 1569, and as a follow-up to the conferences, Wood was again sent on an embassy to England in March 1569, and returned in June 1569. His embassy was intended to assist in exposing the intrigues of the
283:. She was looking after Agnes Keith's daughter. The child was "merry and very lusty". Her nurse was pregnant and wanted go home. In Edinburgh Sir William Douglas helped Wood check the coffers containing Agnes Keith's clothes at
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Knox wrote that Mary, Queen of Scots hated John Wood, because he, with John
Wishart of Pitarro, "flattered her not in her dancing and other doings." According to Knox, when Mary was told her half-brother,
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conference he made a show of reluctance in presenting the accusation against the queen, but allowed it to be plucked out of his hands by the bishop of Orkney, who presented it to the
English council.
132:, the English ambassador at Paris described Wood as one "in whom there is much virtue and sufficiency." He recommended that Wood's devotion to the English interest should be rewarded with a pension.
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half brother, Lord James
Stewart, afterwards Earl of Moray, began as early at least as 1548, when he accompanied him to France. About September 1560 he accompanied an embassy to England, recorded by
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in March. He wrote to Agnes on 4 April 1570 that he was going to
Glasgow, and then returning to see her, and in case any accident came his way, his brother James Wood had her business documents.
240:, a Machiavellian speech was attributed to John Wood urging Regent Moray to ruthless action against his adversaries and to use any means possible to increase his popular support.
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and his secret negotiations with the Queen of Scots. To raise his status in order that he might have "ane honorable style, to set out the better his embassage", according to
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parish in Fife, and his son were later charged for their part in the murder. The
Hamilton family were accused of Wood's murder in a propaganda work attributed to
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159:'s last words to her were that she should be a Protestant, Mary declared plainly that Coldingham's speech was invented by Wood and Wishart. During the
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615:, vol. 3 (Edinburgh, 1903), p. 77 no. 123 "thame that fetcheit men out of Teviotdaill to Fyff to slay Maister Johne Wod", TNA SP52/17 f.36.
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Wood remained in obscurity until Mary abdicated and Moray returned to power as regent, when he became his secretary, in preference to
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wrote that Wood was "a great ringleader at York." Wood kept up a correspondence of his own with
William Cecil, the English
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The works of Mr George Buchanan, in the Scottish language: containing The chamæleon, and An admonition to the true lords
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98:, graduating in 1536 and so used the title "Master", referring to his degree. It has been suggested he became vicar of
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rebellion against Mary in 1565, led by the Earl of Moray, Wood was commanded to surrender himself to imprisonment in
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on 31 October 1569 describing the success of Moray's military mission to the west of Scotland.
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and her other servants to find refuge in England. He visited her infant daughter at
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78:(died 1570), was a Scottish courtier, administrator and secretary to the
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Collection of Inventories and other Records of the Royal Wardrobe
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emissary to Elizabeth with vain requests for her assistance.
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wrote that in December 1562 Wood distanced himself from the
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to join with the "rulers" of the Scottish royal court of
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522:(Edinburgh, 1815), pp. 123-52: Joseph Robertson,
94:, and was educated at St Leonards College at the
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754:Politicians assassinated in the 16th century
551:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1900), p. 697 mo. 1195.
188:had consented to the murder of her husband
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613:Calendar State Papers Scotland, 1569-1571
537:Memorials of the Transactions in Scotland
421:Register of the Privy Council of Scotland
709:Members of the Privy Council of Scotland
294:John Wood was killed on 15 April 1570.
82:. He was assassinated on 15 April 1570.
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157:John Stewart, Commendator of Coldingham
739:Alumni of the University of St Andrews
482:Calendar State Papers, Foreign 1569–71
411:, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1848), pp. 392–3.
383:Calendar State Papers Foreign, 1560–61
371:Calendar State Papers, Foreign 1560–61
346:Calendar State Papers, Foreign 1560–61
184:which proved to his satisfaction that
433:Calendar State Papers, Foreign 1566–8
297:Arthur Forbes, the laird of Reres in
192:, and Wood had taken these copies to
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573:HMC 6th Report & Appendix: Moray
563:, vol. 3 (London, 1903), pp. 77, 91.
121:, "as mykle as ys written thereof".
603:, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1833), p. 40.
507:Register Privy Council of Scotland
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729:Assassinated Scottish politicians
660:. Vol. 62. pp. 361–362.
307:Exhortation against the Hamiltons
177:inventories of the queen's jewels
124:John Wood was a supporter of the
691:Dictionary of National Biography
657:Dictionary of National Biography
526:(Edinburgh, 1863), pp. xviii-xx.
524:Inventaires de la Royne Descosse
267:In April 1570 John Wood visited
281:Margret Erskine, Lady Lochleven
561:Calendar State Papers Scotland
549:Calendar State Papers Scotland
457:Calendar State Papers Scotland
322:Admonitioun to the Trew Lordis
257:Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray
173:William Maitland of Lethington
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744:Court of Mary, Queen of Scots
575:(London, 1877), pp. 646, 652.
714:16th-century Scottish people
539:(Edinburgh, 1836), pp. 5–13]
445:HMC 6th Report Earl of Moray
317:to slay Maister John Wood".
105:John Wood's connection with
724:People murdered in Scotland
681:"Wood, John (d.1570)"
676:Henderson, Thomas Finlayson
651:"Wood, John (d.1570)"
646:Henderson, Thomas Finlayson
398:, vol. 2 (1848), pp. 294–5.
190:Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley
117:with Wood a copy of Knox's
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587:(London, 1877), pp. 651-2.
136:Mary and the Earl of Moray
119:History of the Reformation
243:Wood wrote to Cecil from
226:James Melville of Halhill
206:James Melville of Halhill
90:John Wood was the son of
628:George Buchanan (1823).
320:George Buchanan, in his
145:Assembly of the New Kirk
96:University of St Andrews
601:Ancient Criminal Trials
194:Elizabeth I of England
66:Administrator for the
585:HMC 6th Report: Moray
493:Melville of Halhill,
130:Nicholas Throckmorton
238:Pretended Conference
212:. At the subsequent
198:Mary, Queen of Scots
186:Mary, Queen of Scots
149:Mary, Queen of Scots
126:Scottish Reformation
92:Andrew Wood of Largo
535:Richard Bannatyne,
407:Laing, David, ed.,
394:Laing, David, ed.,
269:Sir William Douglas
55:Cause of death
49:Kingdom of Scotland
36:Kingdom of Scotland
749:Scottish courtiers
734:Scottish diplomats
409:Works of John Knox
396:Works of John Knox
287:. Wood went on to
210:Secretary of State
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703:Categories
468:Melville,
328:References
311:Teviotdale
289:St Andrews
273:Loch Leven
245:Manderston
497:, p. 216.
435:, no. 174
348:, no. 550
141:John Knox
25:John Wood
472:, p. 211
373:, no. 29
361:, ii. 45
200:and the
58:Homicide
688:(ed.).
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495:Memoirs
470:Memoirs
359:History
86:Career
684:. In
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275:. At
100:Largo
315:Fife
43:Died
31:Born
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