Volume I Part 10 (1/2)

[12] Whittaker, vol iv p 144

[13] Mezeray, Histoire de France, toer's Memoirs, vol i p 189, et seq

[15] Melville's Me dates it may be proper to mention, that we do not observe the old division of the year Down till 1563, the French began the year at Easter; but it was then altered to the 1st of January, by the Chancellor L'Hopital In Scotland till 1599, and in England till 1751, the year began on the 25th of March Thus, in all the State Papers and letters of the age, written between the 1st of January and the 25th of March, the dates invariably belong to e should now consider the preceding year

It is useful to be aware of this fact; though it is unnecessary for a writer of the present day, to deviate from the established computation of time--Anderson's Collections, vol i--Preface, p li; and Laing, vol

i p 266

[17] Keith, p 73

[18] Goodall's Examination, vol l p 159, et seq The e,

”Pandere res alta terra et caligine mersas,”

he has in more than one instance amply justified

[19] Mezeray, Castelnau, Brantoer

[20] This picture originally belonged to Lord Robert Stuart, Earl of Orkney, one of Mary's natural brothers, and is now in the possession of William Trail, Esq of Woodwick, Orkney, into whose faether with other relics of the Earl, by the e of an ancestor of Mr Trail, to one of his descendants _Vide_ APPENDIX A

[21] It is to the kindness of John Watson Gordon, Esq deservedly one of the most eminent portrait-painters in Scotland, that we are indebted, both for the use of the painting fro has been made, and for several of the facts we have stated above Mr Gordon has executed three copies of the picture--all of the the merits, without any of the dusky diinal

[22] The coat of ar The coat was borne Baron and Femme;--The first contained the coat of the Dauphin, which took up the upper half of the shi+eld, and consisted of the arms of France The lower half was impaled quarterly In _one_ and _four_ the arland Over the whole was half an escutcheon the sinister half being obscured or cut off, to denote that the English croas in the possession of another, to the bearer's prejudice Under the arms were four lines in French, thus wretchedly translated by Strype, in his ”Annals of Queen Elizabeth”

”The arms of Mary Queen Dauphiness of France, The noblest lady in earth for till advance, Of Scotland Queen and of England, also Of France, as God hath providet it so”

Keith, p 114 Chal these arms, and the above motto, is preserved in Mary's aparter, Vol II p 7

[24] Miss Benger, vol ii p 43

[25] Miss Benger erroneously antedates the death of Francis, on the 28th of November See her _Memoirs_, vol ii p 74 Chalives a copy of the inscription on the tomb of Francis, which of course settles the point, vol ii p 124 Miss Benger does not appear to have seen this inscription

[26] Conaeus in Jebb, vol ii p 19

[27] Keith, p 157 and 160

[28] Keith, p 160, & seq

[29] Keith, p 165, et seq

[30] Keith, p 167, et seq

[31] Robertson says, that the amendment would not have been approved of by ”_either_ Queen” He alleges that Mary had only ”suspended” the prosecution of her title to the English Crown; and that ”she determined to revive her claim, on the first prospect of success” That Robertson has, in this instance, done injustice to Mary, is evident, from the exact consistency of her future conduct, ill be found stated in the text--_Robertson_, _Vol_ ii _p_ 200

[32] Keith, p 170 et seq Robertson says, that at the period of these conferences, Mary was only in her eighteenth year; but, as they both took place in 1561, she must have been in her nineteenth year, which Keith confir now perused several original conferences, will, I suppose, clearly discern the fine spirit and genius of that princess, as yet but in the 19th year of her age”

[33] Brantome in Jebb, vol ii p 82

[34] Keith, p 175 Throck, ood betwixt the Queen, hter, and shall be glad to hear that there were good a, my son, nor I, nor any of his Council, will do harm in the matter, _or show ourselves other than friends to them both_”