THE QUEEN’S MARIES:
A Romance of Holyrood.
BY
G. J. WHYTE MELVILLE,
AUTHOR OF “DIGBY GRAND,” “THE INTERPRETER,” “HOLMBY HOUSE,” “GOOD FOR NOTHING,” ETC.
NEW EDITION.
LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
TO A LADY
WHOSE UNTIRING ENERGY AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH
HAVE ADDED LARGELY TO THE LITERATURE
OF OUR COUNTRY,
AND WHOSE ELOQUENT DEFENCE OF A CALUMNIATED QUEEN HAS
IDENTIFIED WITH MARY STUART THE NAME OF
AGNES STRICKLAND,
THE FOLLOWING PAGES ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY
THE AUTHOR.
Bartrams, Hampstead,
June 1862.
THE QUEEN’S MARIES:
A ROMANCE OF HOLYROOD.
‘Yestre’en the Queen had four Maries—
The day she’ll hae but three—
There was Mary Beton, and Mary Seton,
And Mary Carmichael and me.’