The Tragedy of Fotheringay / Founded on the journal of D. Bourgoing, physician to Mary Queen of Scots, and on unpublished ms.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

by Mary Monica Maxwell-Scott

[9] Chantelauze, p. 476.

[10] Paulet to Walsingham, 27th August, Record Office.

[11] Chantelauze, p. 479.

[12] Probably the Mr. Bagot who is mentioned by Paulet.

[13] See also the Letter Books of Sir Amyas Paulet, pp. 288-292.

[14] Chantelauze, p. 490.

[15] Miss Strickland says that the Queen's passage through Burton is recorded by a Latin inscription engraved on a window at Hill Hall Castle.

[16] This conversation with Gorges is mentioned in Bourgoing's Journal alone. See Chantelauze, pp. 401, 402.

[17] "Beat down the castle in a fit of revenge."—Archæologia, xv. 221; Gough's Camden, ii. 181.

[18] It is a curious fact that the thistle is to be found growing near all the places in which Queen Mary resided or was imprisoned, both in England and Scotland.