In September 1571 a Marian cavalry force led by Lord Claud Hamilton rode into Stirling during a sitting Parliament and seized the Regent Lennox at gunpoint. In the mêlée Lennox was shot — accounts say by a soldier named Caberston — and he died of the wound the same day. The audacity of the raid shocked the King's party: Parliament had been meeting in the open courtyard and the guards were overwhelmed before anyone could react. Hamilton's horsemen escaped with several noble prisoners. Lennox was the second consecutive regent to be violently removed.
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