Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) _Just Published, 3 Vols. post 8vo, Price 1l. 4s. boards,_ THE LAIRDS OF FIFE. VELUTI IN SPECULUM. PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO., EDINBURGH; AND HURST, CHANCE & CO., LONDON. LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. VOL. II. CONSTABLE'S MISCELLANY OF Original and Selected Publications IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS OF LITERATURE SCIENCE, & THE ARTS. VOL. XXV. LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, VOL. II. [Illustration: LOCHLEVEN CASTLE. Drawn by W. Brown Engraved by W. Miller] EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH: AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON. 1828. LIFE OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. BY HENRY GLASSFORD BELL, ESQ. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. "AYEZ MEMOIRE DE L'AME ET DE L'HONNEUR DE CELLE QUI A ESTE VOTRE ROYNE." _Mary's own Words._ EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR CONSTABLE & CO. EDINBURGH; AND HURST, CHANCE & CO. LONDON. 1828. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE CHAPTER I. The Proposal of a Divorce between Mary and Darnley, and the Christening of James VI 1 CHAPTER II. Occurrences immediately preceding Darnley's Death 19 CHAPTER III. The Death of Darnley 37 CHAPTER IV. Bothwell's Trial and Acquittal 55 CHAPTER V. Bothwell's Seizure of the Queen's Person, and subsequent Marriage to her 77 CHAPTER VI. The Rebellion of the Nobles, the Meeting at Carberry Hill, and its Consequences 99 CHAPTER VII. Mary at Loch-Leven, her Abdication, and Murray's Regency 120 CHAPTER VIII. Mary's Escape from Loch-Leven, and the Battle of Langside 147 CHAPTER IX. Mary's Reception in England, and the Conferences at York and Westminster 161 CHAPTER X. Mary's Eighteen Years' Captivity 191 CHAPTER XI. Mary's Trial and Condemnation 219 CHAPTER XII. Mary's Death, and Character 245 An Examination of the Letters, Sonnets, and other Writings, adduced in Evidence against Mary Queen of Scots 267 Addendum 335 ERRATA IN VOL. I. Preface, p. v, for "_eminent_," read "_imminent_." Page 104, for "_On the 25th of August 1561, Mary sailed out of the harbour of Calais_," read "_on the 15th of August_," &c. Page 155, for "_knapsack_," read "_knapscap_."