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the neither part beneth the barre viij yerds: and the rest for the upper parte The breadeth of the chamber is vij yerds

”There is another chathe is xiiij

yerds; the breadeth, vij yerdes; and the deppeth iij yerdes dim”

[191] As an example of some of the mistakes which the fabricators of these letters committed, it may be mentioned, that in one of them, dated the 27th of July 1586, Mary is ht so low but that I aallop after the hounds on horseback, as this afternoon I intend to do, within the limits of this park, and could otherwhere if it were permitted” Yet on the 3d of June previous, Sir Aetting a little strength, and has been out in her coach, and is so ponds to see the diversion of duck-hunting; but she is not able to ithout support on each side” See Chalmers, vol i p 426

[192] Cae, p 192, et seq--Robertson, Book VII--Stuart, vol ii p 268, et seq

[193] It deserves notice, that no particulars of the trial at Fotheringay have been recorded, either by Mary herself, or any of her friends, but are all derived from the narrative of two of Elizabeth's notaries If Mary's triumph was so decided, even by their account, it may easily be conceived that it would have appeared still more complete, had it been described by less partial writers

[194] Camden, p 525, et seq

[195] Murdin, p 569

[196] Camden

[197] Jebb, vol ii p 91

[198] Tytler, vol ii p 319, et seq, and p 403--Chal and just exposition of the shameful nature of the Queen's correspondence with Paulet The reader cannot fail to peruse the following passage with interest:

”The letters written by Elizabeth to Sir Aay Castle, disclose to us the true sentiments of her heart, and her steady purpose to have Mary privately assassinated

Paulet, a rude but an honest reat insolence and harshness to Queen Mary, and treated her with the utmost disrespect He approached her person without any ceremony, and usually came covered into her presence, of which she had coht a fit person for executing the above purpose The following letter fro picture of her artifice and flattery, in order to raise his expectations to the highest pitch

'TO MY LOVING AMIAS

'_Amias, my most faithful and careful servant_, God reward thee treblefold for the ed If you knew, _rateful heart accepts and praiseth your spotless endeavours and faithful actions, perfore, it would ease your travail, and rejoice your heart; in which I charge you to carry this ht of ment the value that I prize you at, and suppose no treasure can countervail such a faith And you shall condemn me in that fault that yet I never committed, if I reward not such desert; yea let e not such athus buoyed up his hopes and wishes, Walsingham, in his letters to Paulet and Drury, mentions the proposal in plain words to them 'We find, by a speech lately made by her Majesty, that she doth note in you both a lack of that care and zeal for her service, that she looketh for at your hands, in that you have not in all this time (of yourselves, without any other provocation) found out so the great peril she is hourly subject to, so long as the said Queen shall live'--In a Post-script: 'I pray you, let both this and the enclosed be committed to the fire; as your answer shall be, after it has been communicated to her Majesty, for her satisfaction' In a subsequent letter: 'I pray you let me knohat you have done with my letters, because they are not fit to be kept, that I ht otherwise take offence thereat'

What a cruel snare is here laid for this faithful servant! He is tempted to commit a n to destroy the warrant for doing it He was too wise and too honourable to do either the one or the other Had he fallen into the snare, we uess, from the fate of Davidson, ould have been his Paulet, in return, thus writes to Walsingha toto your directions, to return my ansith all possible speed; which I shall deliver unto you with great grief and bitterness ofto see this unhappy day, in which I an, to do an act which God and the law forbiddeth My goods and life are at her Majesty's disposition, and I am ready to lose them the next morrow if it shall please her But God forbid I should reat a blot to my poor posterity, as shed blood without laarrant”

[] What a picture have we here, of the heroine of England! Wooing a faithful servant to commit a clandestineJohn, in the sa with Hubert to e, sho intientle Hubert, We owe thee much! Within this wall of flesh, There is a soul, counts thee her creditor, And with advantage ood friend, thy voluntary oath Lives in this bosom dearly cherished

[199] Mackenzie's Lives of the Scottish Writers, vol iii p

336--Robertson, vol ii p 194--Chalmers, vol i p 449

[200] La Mort de la Royne d'Ecosse in Jebb, vol ii p 611

[201] Jebb, vol ii p 622 et seq

[202] ”Mary's testament and letters,” says Ritson the antiquarian, ”which I have seen, blotted with her tears in the Scotch College, Paris, will reular abilities, tenderness, and affection,--of a head and heart of which no other Queen in the world was probably ever possessed”

[203] Jebb, vol ii p 628, et seq

[204] History of Fotheringay, p 79