Mary Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
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SCOTTISH HISTORY FROM CONTEMPORARY WRITERS
NO. II.
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Mary Queen of Scots
PREFACE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Mary Queen of Scots
FROM MARY'S BIRTH TO HER RETURN TO SCOTLAND FROM FRANCE
1550—April. Queen Mary's Life in France—Character of the Queen.
The Abolition of Roman Catholicism by the Scottish Parliament.
1560.—December 6. Mary's Devotion to Francis II.
1560.—December 31. Proposals for Mary's Return to Scotland, and for a Second Marriage.
1561.—June 13. Mary's Intentions Regarding Religion on her Return.
1561.—July 26. Throckmorton to Queen Elizabeth.
1561.—August 12. The Voyage from France to Scotland.
FROM MARY'S ARRIVAL IN SCOTLAND TO THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE
Knox's Opinion of the Queen.
A Ballad of Welcome.
1561.—November 1. The Queen's first High Mass.
Popular Songs.
1562.—Randolph's Account of the Huntly Rebellion.
1563.—28th May. The Sentence on the Earl's Body.
1563.—May or June. Knox and the Queen.
1563.—August 20. Instructions for Randolph.
FROM THE DARNLEY MARRIAGE TO THE RIZZIO MURDER
1565.—April 29. Mary's Festivities.
Murray's Reception by Elizabeth.
Agreement between Darnley and the Earls of Murray, Argyll, Glencairn, and Rothes, and Lords Boyd and Ochiltree.
Bond for Rizzio's Murder—Ruthven's Relation.
1566.—April 2. Mary's Description of the Murder of Rizzio, in a letter to the Archbishop of Glasgow, her Ambassador in Paris.
MURDER OF RIZZIO TO MURDER OF DARNLEY
Bequests to the King.
The Birth of Prince James.
Rejoicings in Edinburgh.
Mary and the Poor.
Buchanan on the Ride to Hermitage.
An Incident of the Baptism.
1566.—December 23. Restoration of the Consistorial Jurisdiction of the Archbishop of St. Andrews.
Darnley's Illness.
Mary's Description of the Murder.
FROM THE MURDER OF DARNLEY TO THE FLIGHT INTO ENGLAND
A Bond by a Number of the Nobility to promote Bothwell's Marrying of Queen Mary.
1567.—May. Mary on her Capture. Instructions to the Bishop of Dunblane for the French Court.
1567.—May. Mary's Demeanour.
THE CONFERENCES AT YORK AND WESTMINSTER
1568.—September 9. Mary's Instructions to her Commissioners.
October 8. Complaint of the Queen of Scots against the Earl of Murray.
October 10. The Answer of the Earl of Murray.
1568.—October 16. Queen Mary's Commissioners' Rejoinder to Murray's Reply.
Abstract of Matters showed to the Queen's Majesty's Commissioners by the Scots, sent the 11th of October.
Notes drawn forth of the Queen's Letters sent to the Earl Bothwell.
1568.—November 22. Mary to her Commissioners.
1568.—December 4. Elizabeth's Answer.
1568.—Dec. 4. Proceedings of the Privy Council.
1568.—Dec. 6. Proofs produced at Westminster.
1568.—December 19. Queen Mary's own Answer to the "Eik."
1569.—January 7. Proceedings at Hampton Court.
1569.—January 10. At Hampton Court.
THE DOCUMENTS
Letter V.
2. Buchanan's Account.
The Depositions of Paris.
THE END
(A.) TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MARY TO LORD DARNLEY AND TO THE DUKE OF CHÂTELHERAULT.
TABLE SHOWING THE POSITION OF MARY AND DARNLEY WITH REGARD TO THE CROWN OF ENGLAND.
(B.) LORD DARNLEY.
(C.) CONTEMPORARY WRITERS.
GEORGE BUCHANAN.
CONAEUS.
LORD HERRIES.
JOHN LESLEY.
LINDSAY OF PITSCOTTIE.
SIR JAMES MELVILLE.
CLAUDE NAU.
LORD RUTHVEN.
DIURNAL OF OCCURRENTS.
GUDE AND GODLY BALLATES.
(D.) AUTHORITIES.
(1.) OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS.
(E.) CONTROVERSIAL WORKS.
THE END
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