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The Life of Mary Queen of Scots (Paperback)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: faults and those of others?which must appeal to many as a punishment greatly exceeding her due; all these elements go to form the life-story of Mary Stewart, Queen of the Scots. From her birth this woman was the subject of strife. It was in the chamber in Linlithgow Palace in which the infant had drawn her first breath that the newly- widowed mother lay 'in great fear, through divers factions among the principal noblemen . . . contending among themselves for the government of the realm and the keeping of the Princess's person.' Her uncle, Henry v1ll. of England, demanding her betrothal to his son, afterwards Edward VI., sent army after army against her distracted country. Time after time were the Borders reduced to a desert. Leith was taken, Edinburgh given over to the flames; the stately abbeys of Melrose, Dryburgh, and Jed- burgh became blackened ruins; the country as far as the Highlands was devastated. Still the spirit of the nation remained unconquered, the devotion of the people to their young queen unbounded. Henry was assured that if he persisted in his purpose of forcing the marriage of the young queen and of subduing Scotland to England, ' there is not so little a boy but he will hurl stones at it; the wives will come out with their distaff and the Commons universally will die rather than it.' The repeated plots of the Earl of Arran, her guardian and the nearest heir to the throne, to gain possession of the infant queen by force and carry her away to his fastness in the Highlands, resulted in her being removed under a strong guard from her birthplace to the impregnable fortress of Stirling Castle. It was here that at the age of nine months she was carried from her nursery to the adjacent church and crowned 'with such solempnitie, ' says the English ambassador, '...



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