The Tragedy of Fotheringay / Founded on the journal of D. Bourgoing, physician to Mary Queen of Scots, and on unpublished ms. documents

Transcriber's Note
Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note; inconsistent and archaic spellings in quoted material have been retained as they appear in the original.

Walker & Boutall, Ph. Sc.
FOUNDED ON
THE JOURNAL OF D. BOURGOING, PHYSICIAN TO MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS, AND ON UNPUBLISHED MS. DOCUMENTS
BY THE
HON. MRS. MAXWELL SCOTT OF ABBOTSFORD
LONDON ADAM & CHARLES BLACK 1895

Robert Beale, whose name occurs so frequently in my narrative, had long been employed in a subordinate position by Elizabeth's Government, and in 1576 was sent by the Privy Council on an embassy to the Prince of Orange. He was later appointed Clerk of Council to the Queen, the office in which he comes before us at the time of Queen Mary's trial and death, and his daughter Margaret married Sir Henry Yelverton, Attorney-General, the ancestor of the Calthorpe family, who thus became the possessors of the documents I have referred to.
In the background of this picture the execution of the Queen at Fotheringay is represented, along with the portraits of Jane Kennedy and Elizabeth Curle, the two maids of honour who were present on the sad occasion. The royal arms of Scotland are painted on the right-hand corner of the picture, and there are three inscriptions in Latin, the translations of which are as follow:—