(A.) TABLE SHOWING THE RELATIONSHIP OF MARY TO LORD DARNLEY AND TO THE DUKE OF CHÂTELHERAULT.
JAMES II., King of Scotland.
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+----------------------+-------------------+
| |
James III. Mary = James, Lord Hamilton.
| |
James IV. = Margaret, = Archibald, +-----+-------+
| dau. of | Earl of | |
| Henry VII. | Angus. | |
| of England. | James, Elizabeth, _m._
| | 1st Earl Matthew, Earl
| | of Arran. of Lennox.
James V. = Mary of | | |
| Guise. | James, |
| | 2nd Earl |
| | of Arran |
Mary Stuart. | and Duke of John, Earl
| Châtelherault. of Lennox.
| |
+----------------+ |
| |
Margaret = Matthew, Earl
| of Lennox.
|
Henry, Lord Darnley.
TABLE SHOWING THE POSITION OF MARY AND DARNLEY WITH REGARD TO THE CROWN OF ENGLAND.
HENRY VII.
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+-------------------+---------+------------+
| | |
Henry VIII. James IV. = Margaret = Archibald, Mary = Charles, Duke
+------+----+ | | Earl of | of Suffolk.
| | | | | Angus |
Edward VI. | Elizabeth. James V. | +---+-----+
| | | | |
Mary. | Margaret, _m._ | |
Mary. Matthew, Earl | |
of Lennox. | |
| Frances, Eleanor,
| _m._ _m._
Henry, Lord Henry, Henry,
Darnley. Duke of Earl of
Suffolk. Cumberland.
| |
+-----------------+-----------------+ |
| | |
Lady Jane Grey. Catherine, _m._ |
Edward, Earl of |
Hertford. |
|
+--------------------------+
| |
Margaret, _m._ Henry, Earl of Derby.
(B.) LORD DARNLEY.
It may be of some interest to collect a few contemporary opinions regarding the unfortunate Lord Darnley. The extracts from Sir James Melville and Randolph ([pp. 46-53], [54-56]) sufficiently illustrate the personality of Mary, and we need only add Knolly's description of the Queen of Scots on her arrival in England (Wright's "Elizabeth," vol. i. pp. 280-1). He wrote to Cecil: "This ladie and princess is a notable woman. She semeth to regard no ceremonious honour beside the acknowledging of her estate regalle. She sheweth a disposition to speake much, to be bold, to be pleasant, and to be very famylyar. She sheweth a great desire to be avenged of her enemies: she sheweth a readiness to expose herself to all perylls in hope of victorie; she delyteth much to hear of hardiness and valiancye, commending by name all approved hardy men of her cuntrye, altho' they be her enemies: and she commendeth no cowardice even in her friends. The thing that most she thirsteth after is victory, and it semeth to be indifferent to her to have her enemies diminish, either by the sword of her friends, or by the liberall promises and rewards of her purse, or by division and quarrells raised among themselves; so that for victorie's sake, payne and perrylls semeth pleasant unto her, and in respect of victorie, welthe and all thyngs semeth to her contemptuous and vile."