The fall of Regent Morton came through the machinations of James VI's new French favourite Esme Stewart, Duke of Lennox, and the ambitious Captain James Stewart who denounced Morton publicly before the king for complicity in the murder of Darnley fourteen years earlier. Morton was arrested at a council meeting in Edinburgh, imprisoned, tried before a Parliament packed with his enemies, and beheaded by the maiden — the Edinburgh guillotine he had himself introduced to Scotland. His arrest was effected by armed men who entered the council chamber, a pattern of violent factional politics that defined the minority.
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