Volume II Part 11 (1/2)

”Lord Lindsay,--I have seen a writing of yours, the 22d of December, and thereby understand,--'You are informed that I have said and affirent, and his cohter, father to our Prince; and if I said it, I have lied in ainst me as becomes you of honour and duty' In respect they have accused the Queen's Majesty, n, of that foul criood subjects owed, or ever have been seen to have done to their native Sovereign,--I have said--'There is of that couilty of that aboe and consent thereto' That you were privy to it, Lord Lindsay, I know not; and if you will say that I have specially spoken of you, you lie in your throat; and that I will defend as of my honour and duty becomes me But let any of the principal that is of the you have sent to ht with some of the traitors therein; for meetest it is that traitors should pay for their own treason HERRIES London, 22d of December 1568”

No answer appears to have been returned to this letter, and so the affair was dropped--Goodall, vol ii p 271

[174] Goodall, vol ii p 313

[175] Chalmers, vol i p 327

[176] Chalmers, vol i p 332

[177] Anderson, vol i p 80

[178] Strype, vol i p 538--Chale, p 114

[180] Goodall, vol ii p 375--Anderson, vol ii p 261--Stuart, vol

ii p 59--Chalmers, vol i p 349

[181] Anderson, vol iii p 248

[182] See ”An Account of the Life and Actions of the Reverend Father in God, John Lesley, Bishop of Ross,” in Anderson, vol iii p vii

[183] Miss Benger, vol ii p 439

[184] Additions to the Me, vol ii p 285

Alas! what am I?--what avails my life?

Does not my body live without a soul?-- A shadow vain--the sport of anxious strife, That wishes but to die, and end the whole

Why should harsh enreatness has no charrief be o'er;-- Soon the oppressor gain the victory

Ye friends! to whose reth to aid you, or your cause, have I; Cease then to shed the unavailing tear,-- I have not feared to live, nor dread to die; Perchance the pain that I have suffered here, May win me more of bliss thro' God's eternal year

[186] See the whole of this letter in Whittaker, vol iv p 399 Camden translated it into Latin, and introduced it into his History; but he published only an abridged edition of it, which Dr Stuart has paraphrased and abridged still further; and Mademoiselle de Keralio has translated Dr Stuart's paraphrased abridginal letter Stuart, vol ii p 164--Keralio, Histoire d'Elisabethe, vol v p 349

[187] Chaled on two successive days, seven on each day; and the first seven, ae, were cut down before they were dead, ee_, _p_ 177

[189] Stranguage, p 176--Chalmers, vol i p 427 et seq

[190] In the first series of Ellis's Collection of ”Original Letters illustrative of English History,” there is given a fac siement to be observed at the trial of the Queen of Scots As it is interesting, and brings the whole sceneexplanatory copy of it will be perused with interest

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_Below, in another hand, apparently in answer to Lord Burleigh's direction, is the following_:

”This will be the whereof is in all xxiij yerds with the hereof there may be fr