The Works of Wm. Robertson, D.D.: History of Scotland, books VI-VIII. A critical dissertation concerning the murder of King Henry, and the genuineness of the Queen's letters to BothwellTalboys and Wheeler; and W. Pickering, London., 1825 - America |
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... duke and lord Herries , having recovered liberty by Kirkaldy's favour , resumed the places which they had formerly held in their councils . Encouraged by the acquisition of persons so illus- trious by their birth , or so eminent for ...
... duke and lord Herries , having recovered liberty by Kirkaldy's favour , resumed the places which they had formerly held in their councils . Encouraged by the acquisition of persons so illus- trious by their birth , or so eminent for ...
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... duke and lord Herries , having recovered liberty by Kirkaldy's favour , resumed the places which they had formerly held in their councils . Encouraged by the acquisition of persons so illus- trious by their birth , or so eminent for ...
... duke and lord Herries , having recovered liberty by Kirkaldy's favour , resumed the places which they had formerly held in their councils . Encouraged by the acquisition of persons so illus- trious by their birth , or so eminent for ...
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... duke , or the earls of Argyll and Huntly , whom she had constituted her lieutenants in the kingdom . d Crawf . Mem . 137. Cald . ii . 176 . e Calderw . ii . 181 . Cabbala , 174 . 1570 . The nobles who continued faithful to the king 4 ...
... duke , or the earls of Argyll and Huntly , whom she had constituted her lieutenants in the kingdom . d Crawf . Mem . 137. Cald . ii . 176 . e Calderw . ii . 181 . Cabbala , 174 . 1570 . The nobles who continued faithful to the king 4 ...
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... duke , Huntly , and other leaders of the queen's party , traitors and enemies of their country " . gotiate with In this desperate situation of their affairs , the queen's Mary's ad- adherents had recourse to the king of Spain , with ...
... duke , Huntly , and other leaders of the queen's party , traitors and enemies of their country " . gotiate with In this desperate situation of their affairs , the queen's Mary's ad- adherents had recourse to the king of Spain , with ...
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... duke of Alva . She insinuated , that without some timely and vigorous interposition in her behalf , she would be obliged to accept of these hard conditions , and to purchase liberty at any price . But the pope was a distant and feeble ...
... duke of Alva . She insinuated , that without some timely and vigorous interposition in her behalf , she would be obliged to accept of these hard conditions , and to purchase liberty at any price . But the pope was a distant and feeble ...
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Page 131 - Mary added those accomplishments which render their impression irresistible. Polite, affable, insinuating, sprightly, and capable of speaking and of writing with equal ease and dignity. Sudden, however, and violent in all her attachments, because her heart was warm and unsuspicious. Impatient of contradiction, because she had been accustomed, from her infancy, to be treated as a queen. No stranger, on some occasions, to dissimulation, which, in that perfidious court, where she received her education,...
Page 129 - Bear witne: i that I die constant in my religion ; firm in my fidelity towards Scotland ; and unchanged in my affection to France. Commend me to my son. Tell him I have done nothing injurious to his kingdom, to his honour, or to his rights ; and God forgive all those who have thirsted, without cause, for my blood...
Page 236 - Thus, during the whole seventeenth century, the English were gradually refining their language and their taste ; in Scotland, the former was much debased, and the latter almost entirely lost. In the beginning of that period, both nations were emerging out of barbarity ; but the distance between them, which was then inconsiderable, became, before the end of it, immense. Even after science had once dawned...
Page 132 - ... authors agree in ascribing to Mary the utmost beauty of countenance and elegance of shape of which the human form is capable. Her hair was black, though, according to the fashion of that age, she frequently wore borrowed locks, and of different colours. Her eyes were a dark gray, her complexion was exquisitely 'fine, and her hands and arms remarkably delicate, both as to shape and colour. Her stature was of a height that rose to the majestic.
Page 303 - This being done, the lords departed and accompanied the duke, all as far as the Bow, (which is the gate going out of the high street,) and many down into the palace where he lieth. The town all in armour, the trumpets sounding, and other music such as they have.
Page 133 - She danced, she walked, and rode with equal grace. Her taste for music was just, and she both sung and played upon the lute with uncommon skill. Towards the end of her life, long confinement, and the coldness of the houses in which she had been imprisoned, brought on a rheumatism, which often deprived her of the use of her limbs. No man, says Brantome, ever beheld her person without admiration and love, or will read her history without sorrow.
Page 25 - Ballanden, his servant, holding up the other oxter (armpit) from the abbey to the parish kirk, and, by the said Richard and another servant, lifted up to the pulpit where he behoved to lean at his first entry ; but ere he had done with his sermon, he was so active and vigorous that he was like to ding the pulpit in blads (splinters) and fly out of it.
Page 323 - ... are already given and granted ; no man pleaseth her that contenteth not him ; and what may I say more, she hath given over to him her whole will, to be ruled and guided as himself best liketh...
Page 407 - Majesty, which being given to me by the said persons, as God shall be my judge, was no other than these words, " Schaw to the Earl Morton that the Queen will hear no speech of that matter appointed unto him...
Page 272 - ... least allow that the queen's enemies, who employed these forgers, could not be ignorant of the design and meaning of these short notes and memorandums ; but we find them mistaking them so far as to imagine that they were the ' credit of the bearer,' ie points concerning which the queen had given him verbal instructions.