Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
The Editor desires to acknowledge the courtesy of the Right Reverend
Monsignor Chisholm, Rector of Blairs College, Bishop-Designate of
Aberdeen, who has sanctioned the reproduction of the Blairs
portrait. He has also to acknowledge the assistance of Professor W.
L. Davidson of Aberdeen; Mr. Herbert Fisher, Fellow of New College;
and the Editor of the series, who have read the proof-sheets. Mr.
Swinburne's translation of Mary's last poem (p. 239) is printed by
kind permission, and Mr. T. F. Henderson has allowed the Editor to
use the Documents first printed in his "Casket Letters and Mary
Queen of Scots."

            R. S. R.

NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD,
_February 1899_.

CONTENTS

    SECT.                                                         PAGE

       I. FROM MARY'S BIRTH TO HER RETURN TO SCOTLAND FROM FRANCE    1

      II. FROM MARY'S ARRIVAL IN SCOTLAND TO THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE   17

     III. FROM THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE TO THE RIZZIO MURDER            57

      IV. MURDER OF RIZZIO TO MURDER OF DARNLEY                     81

       V. FROM THE MURDER OF DARNLEY TO THE FLIGHT INTO ENGLAND    114

      VI. THE CONFERENCES AT YORK AND WESTMINSTER                  132

     VII. THE DOCUMENTS                                            162

    VIII. THE END                                                  225

          APPENDICES                                               249

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

  1. QUEEN MARY                                        _Frontispiece_
        (_From the painting preserved in St. Mary's College,
         Blairs, Aberdeen._)

  2. LINLITHGOW PALACE                                              1

  3. HOLYROOD HOUSE                                                20
        (_The north-west end of Holyrood, shown in the
        foreground, contains Queen Mary's rooms._)

  4. QUEEN MARY'S SIGNET RING                                      83
        (_Preserved in the British Museum._)

     FACSIMILE OF QUEEN MARY'S SIGNATURE AND MONOGRAM              83

  5. LOCHLEVEN CASTLE                                             125

  6. HAND-BELL USED BY QUEEN MARY                                 238

  7. EFFIGY OF QUEEN MARY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY                    246
        (_Erected by her son, King James, in 1612._)

    _Nos. 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 are from photographs by Messrs. Wilson,
    Aberdeen; Nos. 4 and 6 by Messrs. Taunt, Oxford. For full
    information regarding Nos. 4 and 6, see "Catalogue of Antiquities"
    &c., exhibited in the Museum of the Archæological Institute of
    Great Britain and Ireland, 1856, pp. 169-182 (Edin. 1859)._

Illustration: LINLITHGOW PALACE, QUEEN MARY'S BIRTHPLACE.

Mary Queen of Scots

SECTION I

FROM MARY'S BIRTH TO HER RETURN TO SCOTLAND FROM FRANCE

_CONTENTS_

  1. Lindsay's account of her birth and her father's death.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587

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