But so long as Mary of Guise's position was upheld by her daughter, no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen, and religious sincerity did not get them off the hook of treason; thus, for example, when they seized the coining - irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July, it was an intelligent enough political and military act, but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow.
But so long as Mary of Guise's position was upheld by her daughter, no amount of rhetoric could conceal the fact that in attacking the regent they were attacking the queen, and religious sincerity did not get them off the coathook of treason; thus, for example, when they seized the coining - irons of the mint in Edinburgh in July, it was an intelligent enough political and military act, but their efforts to justify it on the grounds that they were serving their country by stopping the regent's debasement of the coinage rang all too hollow.