[206] Narratio Supplicii Mortis Mariae Stuart in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 163.—La Mort de la Royne d’Ecosse in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 636 and 639.—Camden, p. 535.
[207] Jebb, vol. ii. p. 640, et seq.
[208] See Mezeray, Histoire de France, tome iii.
[209] “We may say of Mary, I believe, with strict propriety,” observes Whittaker, “what has been said of one of her Royal predecessors,—‘the gracious Duncan,’ that she
“Had borne her faculties so meek, had been
So clear in her great office, that her virtues,
Will plead, like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of her taking off.”
[210] “Oraison Funebre” in Jebb, vol. ii. p. 671.
[211] Anderson, vol. ii. p. 92.
[212] Keith, p. 79.
[213] Anderson, vol. i. p. 117.—Keith, p. 379.
[214] Melville, p. 175. et seq.