The Tragedy of Fotheringay / Founded on the journal of D. Bourgoing, physician to Mary Queen of Scots, and on unpublished ms.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

[117] See Chantelauze, pp. 390, 391; La Mort, p. 625.

[118] La Mort de la Royne d'Escosse, Jebb, ii. 625.

[119] La Mort de la Royne d'Escosse, Jebb, ii. 625.

[120] Chantelauze, p. 393.

[121] Some of the facts of Bourgoing's narrative of the last days were communicated by him to the anonymous author of the Mort de la Royne d'Escosse, and to Blackwood. See Jebb, ii.

[122] Chantelauze, p. 394.

[123] La Mort de la Royne d'Escosse, Jebb, ii. 625; Blackwood, Jebb, ii. p. 302.

[124] "Elle annonça l'intention de descendre dans sa garde-robe pour leur en faire le partage; mais Bourgoing lui representa qu'elle recontrerait les gardes, placés aux pied de l'escalier."—K. de Lettenhove, ii. 338.

[125] Among these last gifts Bourgoing received "two rings, two small silver boxes, the Queen's two Lutes, her music-book bound in velvet, and the red hangings of her bed." While among those given to Elizabeth Curle we find mentioned a gold and enamelled tablet containing portraits of the Queen, her husband (Francis II.), and her son. This portrait, it seems probable, was the original of the picture of Mary afterwards placed in the Church of St. Andrew in Antwerp.

[126] The original French in Labanoff, vi. 483; and in Blackwood, ap. Jebb, ii. 303.