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.