This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...the session of Parliament, or 1 According to Drury's account to Cecil (Tytler, History of Scotland, vii. 375, 376). It is founded on a misunderstanding when Tytler, however, also brings forward as a specially noticeable si of favour for Bothwell after tfl death of Darnley, the fact that the Earl, THE ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...the session of Parliament, or 1 According to Drury's account to Cecil (Tytler, History of Scotland, vii. 375, 376). It is founded on a misunderstanding when Tytler, however, also brings forward as a specially noticeable si of favour for Bothwell after tfl death of Darnley, the fact that the Earl, THE QUEEN ADJURED NOT TO MARRY HIM. 233 with the statement that he also subscribed the 0%?document at " Aii1slie's supper," just as he generally.-._./ 1567. about this period showed himself as a facile adherent of Bothwell, having accordingly been one of the witnesses to the subsequent marriage-contract between Bothwell and the Queen, and three days afterwards, on the 17th May, having attended a meeting of the Privy Council over which Bothwell presided.' More remarkable is another tale of a like nature told by Melvil, inasmuch as this is communicated by him from personal knowledge. He likewise tells that another Scotsman, Thomas Bishop, who had resided long in England, and had laboured there with zeal for the rights of Mary, wrote him a letter which he adjured him to show the Queen, and in which this devoted adherent of hers expressed himself to the same effect as Lord Herries, but with the greater freedom which absence in a foreign country permitted; if the Queen married the Earl, so it was said in this letter, she would lose God's favour, anda.l hearts in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Sir James Melvil actually showed the letter to the Queen, who, after reading it, silently returned it to him, but called the Secretary of State, Wifliam Maitland, and asked him also to read this laird of Lethington then to the Parliament then opened in Edinburgh it is said: In hir Majesties buming thairto, George Lord Gordoun...
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