Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain, Volume 5Blackwood, 1854 |
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... Archibald Douglas's disclosures of their proceedings - Darnley leaves the Queen in anger - Moray and Lethington urge her to divorce him - She resists their temptations- Will not stain her honour - Her ministers determine on his death ...
... Archibald Douglas's disclosures of their proceedings - Darnley leaves the Queen in anger - Moray and Lethington urge her to divorce him - She resists their temptations- Will not stain her honour - Her ministers determine on his death ...
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... Archibald Douglas to Queen Mary , 1583 - Harl . Lib . Printed in Robertson's Appendix . 2 This remarkable correspondence between Mary Stuart and Archibald Douglas commenced in the autumn of the year 1583 , in consequence of the French ...
... Archibald Douglas to Queen Mary , 1583 - Harl . Lib . Printed in Robertson's Appendix . 2 This remarkable correspondence between Mary Stuart and Archibald Douglas commenced in the autumn of the year 1583 , in consequence of the French ...
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... Archibald Douglas to be of great use to her . " But Mary , with the boldness of conscious integrity , answers , " that she will have nought to do with him , unless he can clear himself of the suspicion of having participated in her ...
... Archibald Douglas to be of great use to her . " But Mary , with the boldness of conscious integrity , answers , " that she will have nought to do with him , unless he can clear himself of the suspicion of having participated in her ...
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... Archibald Douglas must have been in possession of every circumstance tending to prove her guilt . Can there be evidence in Mary's favour stronger than the fact that a man so thoroughly acquainted with the ins and outs of the conspiracy ...
... Archibald Douglas must have been in possession of every circumstance tending to prove her guilt . Can there be evidence in Mary's favour stronger than the fact that a man so thoroughly acquainted with the ins and outs of the conspiracy ...
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... Archibald Douglas , one of the parties to whom her clemency was , most un- happily for herself and her husband , extended , certifies that it was in consequence of the intercession of her royal brother - in - law of France , through his ...
... Archibald Douglas , one of the parties to whom her clemency was , most un- happily for herself and her husband , extended , certifies that it was in consequence of the intercession of her royal brother - in - law of France , through his ...
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accomplice ambassador Anderson's Collections Archbishop Archibald Douglas Argyll assassins Bedford Beton Bothwell's Buchanan Castle cause Chalmers chamber confederates consort conspirators Correspondence Court Craigmillar Craigmillar Castle crime Croc Darnley Darnley's murder David Riccio death declared deed desire Drury to Cecil Dunbar Earl of Bothwell Earl of Lennox Earl of Mar Earl of Moray Earl of Morton Edinburgh England English evidence faithful favour France French friends Glasgow Grange hands harquebussiers Hermitage Castle Holyrood Holyrood Abbey honour house of Kirk-of-Field Hubert husband Ibid inedited infant James Melville's Memoirs Jedburgh King Labanoff Lady Laird Lethington letter Lindsay Lochleven lodgings Lord Majesty Majesty's marriage Mary Stuart Mary's matter ministers Moray's night nobles Paper Office Parliament person present Prince proceeded promised Provost's house purpose Queen Elizabeth Queen Mary Queen of Scots realm regal royal mistress Scotland secret sent servants Seton Sir James Melville's Sovereign Stirling Throckmorton tion traitors treason Tytler write
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Page 141 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou...
Page 82 - It is the curse of kings, to be attended By slaves, that take their humours for a warrant To break within the bloody house of life ; And, on the winking of authority, To understand a law ; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when, perchance, it frowns More upon humour, than advis'd respect.
Page 141 - O, woman! in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, 900 And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 99 - Morton that the queen will hear no speech of that matter appointed unto him :" when I crafit that the answer might be made more sensible, secretary Ledington said, that the earl would sufficiently understand it, albeit few or none at that time understand what passed amongst them. It is known to all men, als...
Page 44 - I do believe the principal part of her disease to consist of a deep grief and sorrow. Nor does it seem possible to make her forget the same. Still she repeats these words,
Page 56 - Council, that shall find the means that your Majesty shall be quit of him without prejudice of your son ; and albeit that my Lord of Murray here present be little less scrupulous for a Protestant than your Grace is for a Papist, I am assured he will look through his fingers thereto, and will behold our doings, saying nothing to the same.
Page 360 - ... magnanimity. They had wreaked their murderous vengeance on her husband for breaking the unnatural league into which they had seduced him in his youth and inexperience, and they were about to charge their own crime on her. They spoke first to Throckmorton " of prosecuting justice against the Queen, of making a process to^ condemn her, to crown the Prince, and to keep her in prison all the days of her life ; and lastly, of making her condemnation public, and depriving her of her dignity and her...
Page 364 - How shamefully the queen, our sovereign, was led captive, and by fear, force, and (as by many conjectures may be well suspected) other extraordinary and more unlawful means, compelled...
Page 99 - Whittinghame, earnestly proposed the matter to me again, persuading me thereto ' because it was the Queen's mind, and she would have it done.' Unto this my answer was, I ' desired the Earl Bothwell to bring the Queen's handwrite to me of that matter for a warrant, and then I should give him an answer, otherwise I would not meddle therewith ;' the which warrant he never reported unto me...
Page 123 - And he said that he would never think that she who was his own proper flesh, would do him any hurt, and if any other would do it, they should buy it dear, unless they took him sleeping, albeit he suspected none, so he desired her effectuously to bear him company.